To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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 encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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.
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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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