One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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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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.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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