Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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