Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
DOROTHEA LANGEOne should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the 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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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… 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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