Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
... it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking,… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
I've never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
You go into a room and you know where you're welcome; you know where you're unwelcome.Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention, — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
