The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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