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Famous Dorothea Lange Quotes
“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
“The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.”
Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field