It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
DOROTHEA LANGEIt is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe 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.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
DOROTHEA LANGENo country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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 LANGEPhotography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
DOROTHEA LANGEA documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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 LANGE… 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.
DOROTHEA LANGEIt is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
DOROTHEA LANGEI 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.
DOROTHEA LANGEArtists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
DOROTHEA LANGETo live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
DOROTHEA LANGEI 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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