It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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 believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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 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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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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 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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