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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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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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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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