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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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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