It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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.
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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.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You 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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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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.
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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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