Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
DOROTHEA LANGEOne should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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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