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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

Dorothea Lange

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Dorothea Lange
Age: 70 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 26
Died: 1965
Died: October 11
Documentarian
Journalist
Photographer
Photojournalist
Hoboken
New Jersey
Dorothea Lange Taylor
Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn
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Life
Undertakings
Unattainable
Practically
Visuals
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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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.
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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.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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