You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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