The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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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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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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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I trust my instincts. I don’t distrust them. They haven’t led me astray. It’s when I’ve made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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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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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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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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