Dorothea Lange, born on May 26, 1895, and died on October 11, 1965, was a prominent American photographer. She is widely recognized for her photographs that documented the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl era, which have become enduring symbols of the 20th century.
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“go in over your head, not just up to your neck.”
Source: Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress
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“I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.”
“No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.”
Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
Source: Photographs of a Lifetime
Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
“The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.”
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
Source: Photographs of a Lifetime
Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.”
Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
Source: Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress
“It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.”
Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
“A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.”
Source: Photographs of a Lifetime
“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
Source: Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress
“To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.”
Source: Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress
Source: Photographs of a Lifetime
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“Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.”
Source: Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress
Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
Source: The photographs of Dorothea Lange
“Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.”
“I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.”
“The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.”
Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field