… 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.
DOROTHEA LANGEBring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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 in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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