You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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… 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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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