The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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… 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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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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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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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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