Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
DOROTHEA LANGEgo in over your head, not just up to your neck.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.
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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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