I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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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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… 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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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