Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
DOROTHEA LANGEWe know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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You 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.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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 believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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