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.
DOROTHEA LANGEOne should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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