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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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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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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… 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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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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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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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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