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.
DOROTHEA LANGEA documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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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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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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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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You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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