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.
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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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