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.
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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
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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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… 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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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