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 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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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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 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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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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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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 camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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