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.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotography 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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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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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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