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.
DOROTHEA LANGEThat frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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 camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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