One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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 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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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
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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 go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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