… 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.
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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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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