Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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I trust my instincts. I don’t distrust them. They haven’t led me astray. It’s when I’ve made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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