I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
DOROTHEA LANGEBeing 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.
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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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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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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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