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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.

Dorothea Lange

… 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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All Came Concentrate Kind Only People Picture Take
You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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Heart People Tree Unwelcome Welcome
Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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Artist Beat Controlled Life Ocean Shore
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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Ignorant Mind Open Possible Territory Unknown Wide
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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Consequences Good Lens Object Photograph Photography
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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Deadening Human Spirit Surefire Thing
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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Advantage Being Different Disabled People Perspective
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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Appear Fight Photography State Sunday Today
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
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Being Frame Life Lost Make Mind Photography Picture Subject Wonderful Yourself
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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Benefits Come Extricate Impression Look Maddening Mob Pause Quick Quiet
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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Close Country Itself Look People Scruntnize Visually
To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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Enormous Life Live Touch Undertaking Visual
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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Ahead Along False Know Limit Look Mean Own Photographer Photography Preconception Put
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Camera Instrument People Photograph Teach
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Documentaries Factual Life Photography
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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Exhaustion Hate Life Photography Theme

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