Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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… it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn’t.
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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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 camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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