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.
DOROTHEA LANGELife, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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 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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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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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