I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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 believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
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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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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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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.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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 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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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