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.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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