go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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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I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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