A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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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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