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.
DOROTHEA LANGEIt is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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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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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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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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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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