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.
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 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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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 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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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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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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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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