No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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 words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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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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