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.
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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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… it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn’t.
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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