The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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 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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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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