Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
DOROTHEA LANGEIt is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
DOROTHEA LANGEOne should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGENo 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.
DOROTHEA LANGEBring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
DOROTHEA LANGEIt is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
DOROTHEA LANGEWhile 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.
DOROTHEA LANGEBeing 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.
DOROTHEA LANGETo me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
DOROTHEA LANGEI many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
DOROTHEA LANGEThat frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
DOROTHEA LANGEI’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.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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