Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
DOROTHEA LANGEArtists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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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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… 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 today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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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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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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