… 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 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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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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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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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