Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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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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This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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