It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
DOROTHEA LANGELife, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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