You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
DOROTHEA LANGENo 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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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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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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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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