It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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 trust my instincts. I don’t distrust them. They haven’t led me astray. It’s when I’ve made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.
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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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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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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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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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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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