I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
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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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