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.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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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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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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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
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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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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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