Dorothea Lange Quotes

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Eyes Life Photography

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange

Inspirational, Life, Change

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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

Dorothea Lange

Art, Attention, Art Is

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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.

Dorothea Lange

Pride, Important, Cameras

Dorothea Lange, Keith F. Davis, Kelle A. Botkin (1995). “The photographs of Dorothea Lange”, Harry N. Abrams

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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.

Dorothea Lange

Waiting, Moments, Stills

Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Dorothea Lange

Photography, Reality, Cameras

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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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.

Dorothea Lange

Ignorant, Mind, Territory

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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.

Dorothea Lange

Photography, Mean, Photographer

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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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 is. The artist is a professional see-er.

Dorothea Lange

Life, Photography, Eye

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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Dorothea Lange

Life, Photography, Hate

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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 life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

Shoes, People, Cameras

Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

Dorothea Lange

Believe, Cameras, I Believe

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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.

Dorothea Lange

Looks, Benefits, Quiet

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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Dorothea Lange

Photograph, Objects, Consequence

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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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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 conceptions.

Dorothea Lange

Bystanders, Your Side, Perception

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We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

Dorothea Lange

People, Poverty, Faces

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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

Dorothea Lange

Life, Photography, Enough

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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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 is when I have gone wrong.

Dorothea Lange

Mind, Gone, Instinct

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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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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.

Dorothea Lange

Photography, Sunday, Today

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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

Dorothea Lange

Life, Photography, Documentaries

Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Dorothea Lange

Beautiful, Believe, I Believe

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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 neck.

Dorothea Lange

Over You, Necks, Photographer

Dorothea Lange, Keith F. Davis, Kelle A. Botkin (1995). “The photographs of Dorothea Lange”, Harry N. Abrams

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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

Dorothea Lange

Photography, Unattainable, Photographer

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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Born: May 26, 1895
Died: October 11, 1965
Occupation: Photographer
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