Dorothea Lange on camera
Dorothea Lange48 quotes“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
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The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange 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.
Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange 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.
Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange 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.
Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange
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Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
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Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
Natalie MooneyNatalie Mooney
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I feel that modelling has groomed my personality and made me a confident person, but even today, when I go on the ramp, I get nervous. I am more comfortable being in front of the camera than walking on the ramp.
Kriti SanonKriti Sanon I’m always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.
Maria SharapovaMaria Sharapova It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams Together now, new reside in the album of our gallery. People on this camera roll never came under the same roof again.
Heba NazarHeba Nazar
