The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
DOROTHEA LANGEOne should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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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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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
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