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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.

Dorothea Lange

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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Ignorant Mind Open Possible Territory Unknown Wide
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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Close Country Itself Look People Scruntnize Visually
I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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Animal Courage Encounter Highest Said Time Undeniable
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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Camera Important Poor Pride Spirit Strength Thing
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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Bystanders Perception Side Thought Viewer
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Camera Instrument People Photograph Teach
Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Around Hostile Important Itself Situation Sometimes
The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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Photographer Photography Unattainable Undertaking Visual
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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Before Exhausted Photographer Possibility Soon Subject
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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More never Phases Photographer Sure Yourself
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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Appear Fight Photography State Sunday Today
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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Creative Effort Human Machine Need Time
Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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Crumble Edge Enormous People Realizing
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Blind Camera Photography Realy Styricken Tomorrow Use
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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Accident Become Lion More Photographer Tamer
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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Better Everything Fellow Hide Kind People Person See Tell

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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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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