A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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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.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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