Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
DOROTHEA LANGETo live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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 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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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