You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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 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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… 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.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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