Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
DOROTHEA LANGEPick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
DOROTHEA LANGENo country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
DOROTHEA LANGEYou 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 LANGEPhotography 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 LANGEPhotography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
DOROTHEA LANGENo country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
DOROTHEA LANGEBring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
DOROTHEA LANGEWe know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
DOROTHEA LANGEYou 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.
DOROTHEA LANGESurefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
DOROTHEA LANGEOurs 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.
DOROTHEA LANGEBeing 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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