It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
DOROTHEA LANGE
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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