Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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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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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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You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.
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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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