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.
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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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