The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
DOROTHEA LANGEOurs 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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