… it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn’t.
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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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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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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
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