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.
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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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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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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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.
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