… 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.
DOROTHEA LANGETo me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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 no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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