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.
DOROTHEA LANGEWhile 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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I trust my instincts. I don’t distrust them. They haven’t led me astray. It’s when I’ve made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.
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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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The 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.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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