A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
DOROTHEA LANGESometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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… 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.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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 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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
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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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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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 trust my instincts. I don’t distrust them. They haven’t led me astray. It’s when I’ve made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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