The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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