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.
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.
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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.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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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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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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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