… 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.
DOROTHEA LANGEI encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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 encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see 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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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