Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
DOROTHEA LANGEI encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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… 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.
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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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