Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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