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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

Dorothea Lange

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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Bystanders Perception Side Thought Viewer
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Consequence Good Object Photo Photograph
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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More never Phases Photographer Sure Yourself
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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Close Country Itself Look People Scruntnize Visually
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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Act Appear Art Attention Beauty Deeply Feel Total
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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Along Around Body Camera Life Neck People Share Shoes Show
… 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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All Came Concentrate Kind Only People Picture Take
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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Neck Over Photographer Realize Take You
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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Appear Fight Photography State Sunday Today
You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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Heart People Tree Unwelcome Welcome
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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Creative Effort Human Machine Need Time
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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Animal Courage Encounter Quality Real
go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Go Head Neck Need Over Passion
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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Closely Country Ever Itself Scruntinzed Visually
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Documentaries Factual Life Photography
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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Ahead Along False Know Limit Look Mean Own Photographer Photography Preconception Put

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