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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

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Beautiful Believe Generally Product
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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Before Disappear Eye Greatest People Vocabulary Word
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Enough Life Obvious Photography Picturesque
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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Consequences Good Lens Object Photograph Photography
Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Around Hostile Important Itself Situation Sometimes
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Consequence Good Object Photo Photograph
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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Accident Become Lion More Photographer Tamer
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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Before Exhausted Photographer Possibility Soon Subject
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
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Documentaries Factual Life Photography
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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Audience Cat Large People Photographer Photography Predatory Tell
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
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
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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Deadening Human Spirit Surefire Thing
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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Ahead Along False Know Limit Look Mean Own Photographer Photography Preconception Put
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
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Blind Camera Photography Realy Styricken Tomorrow Use
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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Camera Important Poor Pride Spirit Strength Thing
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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Ignorant Mind Open Possible Territory Unknown Wide
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
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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Being Frame Life Lost Make Mind Photography Picture Subject Wonderful Yourself
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
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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Advantage Being Different Disabled People Perspective
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Alter Change Hold Inspirational Instant Life Photography Take
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Camera Instrument People Photograph Teach
… 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
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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More never Phases Photographer Sure Yourself

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