Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
DOROTHEA LANGENo country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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 believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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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You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.
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