No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
DOROTHEA LANGE… 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.
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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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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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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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