… 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 LANGEIt 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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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 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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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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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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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You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
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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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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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