Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
DOROTHEA LANGEIt is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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