Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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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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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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a 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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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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… 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.
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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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