The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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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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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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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 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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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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