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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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Exhaustion Hate Life Photography Theme
I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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Camera Important Poor Pride Spirit Strength Thing
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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Audience Cat Large People Photographer Photography Predatory Tell
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Consequence Good Object Photo Photograph
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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Animal Courage Encounter Quality Real
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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Close Country Itself Look People Scruntnize Visually
I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Believe Camera Live Use
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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Ahead Along False Know Limit Look Mean Own Photographer Photography Preconception Put
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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Being Frame Life Lost Make Mind Photography Picture Subject Wonderful Yourself
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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Appear Fight Photography State Sunday Today
I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Beautiful Believe Generally Product
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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Benefits Come Extricate Impression Look Maddening Mob Pause Quick Quiet
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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Another Eye Life More Nothing Own Perhaps Photograph Photography Province
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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Consequences Good Lens Object Photograph Photography
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Blind Camera Photography Realy Styricken Tomorrow Use
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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More never Phases Photographer Sure Yourself

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