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.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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 many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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