I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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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… 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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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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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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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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