One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGEOne should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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 good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human 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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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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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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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