The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
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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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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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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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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