Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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 camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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 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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