Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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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 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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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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