It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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 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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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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I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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 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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
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