The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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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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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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