Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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 camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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. 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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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
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