Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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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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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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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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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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