That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
DOROTHEA LANGEYou go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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 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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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.
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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