You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
DOROTHEA LANGEI’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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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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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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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