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.
DOROTHEA LANGESeeing 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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 camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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