Dorothea Lange Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Dorothea Lange

  Eye, Vocabulary, People

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

  Dorothea Lange

  Spirit, Humans, Human Spirit

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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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  Ocean, Artist, Beats

  Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

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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 have only touched it, just touched it.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Cameras, Use

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

  Dorothea Lange

  Passion, Over You, Necks

  Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

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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. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

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  Real, Animal, Quality

  Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

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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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  People, Kind, All Kinds

  Dorothea Lange (1987). “Dorothea Lange”

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• Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

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  Photographer, Exhausted, Possibility

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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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  Phases, Photographer

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• The 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.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Photograph, Objects

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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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  Photography, Cat, People

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• It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

  Dorothea Lange

  Lions, Photographer, Accidents

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• 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.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Photography, Mind

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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.

  Dorothea Lange

  People, Perspective, Different

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• Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.

  Dorothea Lange

  Creative, Effort, Needs

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• When you are doing a lot of hard fast field work, it's a physical necessity to forget every day. You can't try to remember it in any continuity. You get so burdened if you try to do it the other way. You can't dictate to your material... We found our way in, slid in on the edges. We used our hunches. And it was hard, hard living.

  Dorothea Lange

  Trying, Way, Fields

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• No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

  Dorothea Lange

  Country

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• 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 series of unnatural poses.

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  Photography, Sunday, Today

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• 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 itself is important.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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  Heart, People, Tree

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