One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGESurefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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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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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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