To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
DOROTHEA LANGETo live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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