No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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I trust my instincts. I don’t distrust them. They haven’t led me astray. It’s when I’ve made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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