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 LANGETo me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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 camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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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.
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