Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
DOROTHEA LANGEYou 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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