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I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

Dorothea Lange

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Neck Over Photographer Realize Take You
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.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Benefits Come Extricate Impression Look Maddening Mob Pause Quick Quiet
The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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Ignorant Mind Open Possible Territory Unknown Wide
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Enough Life Obvious Photography Picturesque
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.
DOROTHEA LANGE

More never Phases Photographer Sure Yourself
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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Camera Important Poor Pride Spirit Strength Thing
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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Closely Country Ever Itself Scruntinzed Visually
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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Being Frame Life Lost Make Mind Photography Picture Subject Wonderful Yourself
Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Around Hostile Important Itself Situation Sometimes
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Blind Camera Photography Reality Stricken Tomorrow
… 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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All Came Concentrate Kind Only People Picture Take
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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Deadening Human Spirit Surefire Thing
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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Audience Cat Large People Photographer Photography Predatory Tell
I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Animal Courage Encounter Quality Real
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Camera Instrument People Photograph Teach
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.
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Along Around Body Camera Life Neck People Share Shoes Show

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

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