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.
DOROTHEA LANGE
It 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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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 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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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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… it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn’t.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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