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.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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 many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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 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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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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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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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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