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.
DOROTHEA LANGELife, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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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 me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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 encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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