go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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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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 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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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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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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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