The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
DOROTHEA LANGEI many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
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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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… 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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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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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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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