A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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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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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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