… it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn’t.
DOROTHEA LANGENo 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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 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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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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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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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