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.
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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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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 live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched 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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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