Dorothea Lange Quotes

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• One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I…
• One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
• To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
• Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a…
• 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.
• It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
• A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
• Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture…
• Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.
• To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention,
• Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and…
• I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered…
• 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…
• I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.
• Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
• 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.
• 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 hostility…
• Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
• 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…
• I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your…

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