Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
DOROTHEA LANGEA documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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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 visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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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 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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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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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 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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