To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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.
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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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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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 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 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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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