Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
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 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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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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I 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.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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