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.
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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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 is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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