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.
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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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