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.
DOROTHEA LANGENo country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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