Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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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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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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