We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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 camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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