Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
DOROTHEA LANGEI 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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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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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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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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No 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.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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