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.
DOROTHEA LANGEThis 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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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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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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