The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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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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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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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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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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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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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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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… 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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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