"A camera is a tool for learning how…" — Dorothea Lange

"A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera."

— Dorothea Lange

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35 Quotes by Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an…
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…
Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur…
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it…
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…
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…
I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of…

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More Camera Quotes

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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express… — Ansel Adams
I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master?… — Christian Bale
I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that. — Drew Barrymore
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. — Berenice Abbott
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet… — John Berger
I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are… — Anthony Bourdain
At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go… — Anthony Bourdain
I like to know where the camera is. — Jeff Bridges
I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front. — Sarah Brightman
Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty. — David Brinkley
If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot… — Kobe Bryant

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