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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.

Dorothea Lange

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Blind Camera Photography Reality Stricken Tomorrow
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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Appear Fight Photography State Sunday Today
The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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Photographer Photography Unattainable Undertaking Visual
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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Animal Courage Encounter Quality Real
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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Breath Hope Moment Stand Still Wait Waiting
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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Creative Effort Human Machine Need Time
You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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Heart People Tree Unwelcome Welcome
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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Along Around Body Camera Life Neck People Share Shoes Show
Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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Crumble Edge Enormous People Realizing
This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
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Benefits Come Extricate Impression Look Maddening Mob Pause Quick Quiet
… 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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All Came Concentrate Kind Only People Picture Take
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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Closely Country Ever Itself Scruntinzed Visually
Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Around Hostile Important Itself Situation Sometimes
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Camera Creativity Inspirational Instrument People Photography Teaching
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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Close Country Itself Look People Scruntnize Visually
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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Eye Life More Phenomenon Photography Psychological

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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