It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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