No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
DOROTHEA LANGELife, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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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.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
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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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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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