I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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 good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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