That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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