I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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