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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

Dorothea Lange

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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Camera Important Poor Pride Spirit Strength Thing
… 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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All Came Concentrate Kind Only People Picture Take
Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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Crumble Edge Enormous People Realizing
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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Audience Cat Large People Photographer Photography Predatory Tell
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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Better Everything Fellow Hide Kind People Person See Tell
Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Around Hostile Important Itself Situation Sometimes
I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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Animal Courage Encounter Highest Said Time Undeniable
This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
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Benefits Come Extricate Impression Look Maddening Mob Pause Quick Quiet
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Blind Camera Photography Reality Stricken Tomorrow
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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More never Phases Photographer Sure Yourself
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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Creative Effort Human Machine Need Time
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.
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Before Disappear Eye Greatest People Vocabulary Word
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Enough Life Obvious Photography Picturesque
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Camera Creativity Inspirational Instrument People Photography Teaching
Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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Artist Beat Controlled Life Ocean Shore
go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Go Head Neck Need Over Passion

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