Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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 good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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