Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
DOROTHEA LANGEYou go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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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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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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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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