It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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… 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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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