Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
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I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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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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We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
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