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.
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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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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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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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