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.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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I trust my instincts. I don’t distrust them. They haven’t led me astray. It’s when I’ve made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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