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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That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
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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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… 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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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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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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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