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.
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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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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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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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 encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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Seeing 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.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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