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.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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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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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 visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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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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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.
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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 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 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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