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.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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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… 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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While 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.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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