One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGEPick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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 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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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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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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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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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