No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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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 encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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