Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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