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.
DOROTHEA LANGENo country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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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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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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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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