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.
DOROTHEA LANGETo live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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 in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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