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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.

Dorothea Lange

Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Appear Fight Photography State Sunday Today
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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Breath Hope Moment Stand Still Wait Waiting
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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Consequences Good Lens Object Photograph Photography
Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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Crumble Edge Enormous People Realizing
I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Beautiful Believe Generally Product
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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Close Country Itself Look People Scruntnize Visually
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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Camera Important Poor Pride Spirit Strength Thing
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Consequence Good Object Photo Photograph
The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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Photographer Photography Unattainable Undertaking Visual
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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Audience Cat Large People Photographer Photography Predatory Tell
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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Bystanders Perception Side Thought Viewer
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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Astray Efficient Gone Instinct led Mind Trust Wrong
Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Around Hostile Important Itself Situation Sometimes
go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Go Head Neck Need Over Passion
I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Believe Camera Live Use
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.
DOROTHEA LANGE

More never Phases Photographer Sure Yourself

Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.

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