I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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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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I trust my instincts. I don’t distrust them. They haven’t led me astray. It’s when I’ve made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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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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