It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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 … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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… it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn’t.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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