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.
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.
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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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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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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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While 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.
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