I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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… 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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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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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.
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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.
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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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