go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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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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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
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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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