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.
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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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 realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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