Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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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 words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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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 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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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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… it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn’t.
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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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You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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