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.
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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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
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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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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
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I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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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 had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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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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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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