The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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