We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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 visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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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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That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
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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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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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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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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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