This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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I trust my instincts. I don’t distrust them. They haven’t led me astray. It’s when I’ve made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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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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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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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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