… 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.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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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 is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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