“Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.”
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“I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.”
“Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.”
“I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.”
“Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.”
“There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.”
Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews
“I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.”
“When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.”
“Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.”
“The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?”
Source: The daybooks of Edward Weston
“Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.”
“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.”
Source: What Is Cinema?
“The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.”
“Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.”
“I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.”
Source: The Berenice Abbott portfolios