Dorothea Lange Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
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“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
-- Dorothea LangeSource : 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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“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
-- Dorothea LangeSource : 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 LangeSource : 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.”
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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 LangeSource : 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 is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.”
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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.”
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“Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.”
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“To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention,”
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“Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.”
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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.”
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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 LangeSource : Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”
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“No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.”
-- Dorothea LangeSource : 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 believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.”
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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 LangeSource : Dorothea Lange, Keith F. Davis, Kelle A. Botkin (1995). “The photographs of Dorothea Lange”, Harry N. Abrams
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“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”
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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 LangeSource : Dorothea Lange, Keith F. Davis, Kelle A. Botkin (1995). “The photographs of Dorothea Lange”, Harry N. Abrams
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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.”
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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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“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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“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 LangeSource : 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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“It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.”
-- Dorothea LangeSource : 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 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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“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 LangeSource : Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”
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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.”
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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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“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.”
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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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“We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.”
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