No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
DOROTHEA LANGESometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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 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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
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