One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGEBring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
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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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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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 not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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I trust my instincts. I don’t distrust them. They haven’t led me astray. It’s when I’ve made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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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 camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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