Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
DOROTHEA LANGEOne should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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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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