You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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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I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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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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I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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