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 camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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 encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see 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’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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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.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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