I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
DOROTHEA LANGEYou 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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 me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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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 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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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