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.
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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Ours 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.
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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched 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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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 many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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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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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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