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.
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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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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