It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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