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.
DOROTHEA LANGEgo in over your head, not just up to your neck.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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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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