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.
DOROTHEA LANGESometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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