Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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.
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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