The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
DOROTHEA LANGESometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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