A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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 encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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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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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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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