Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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 is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Photography 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.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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.
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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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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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