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.
DOROTHEA LANGEYou 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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