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.
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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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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… 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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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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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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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