Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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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 camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
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