I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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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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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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
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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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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.
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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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