You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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 encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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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 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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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