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.
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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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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