Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photog...
A source page for quotes linked to Dorothea Lange.
“go in over your head, not just up to your neck.”
“I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.”
“No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.”
“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.”
“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.”
“It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.”
“A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.”
“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
“To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.”
“Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.”
“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.”