We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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… 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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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