To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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 go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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… it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn’t.
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Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
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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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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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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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