It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
DOROTHEA LANGEI had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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 words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize 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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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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