The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
DOROTHEA LANGEA documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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