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Dorothea Lange - From the Accidents category:
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Art category:
And art is a by-product of an act of total attention. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Artists category:
Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Beauty category:
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Contemplation category:
The contemplation of things as they are, without error or confusion, without substitution or imposture, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Creativity category:
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. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Excellence category:
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. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Gender category:
- Dorothea Lange and the Documentary Tradition by Karin Becker...
If the boys hadn't been taken from me by circumstances, I might have said to myself, 'I would do this, but I can't because...' as many women say to themselves over and over again, which is one reason why men have the advantage. I was driven by the fact that I was under personal turmoil to do something. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Health category:
- on contracting polio at age seven, which gave her a lifelong limp...
It formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me and humiliated me. I've never gotten over it, and I am aware of the force and power of it. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Intimacy category:
Every image he sees, every photograph he takes, becomes in a sense a self-portrait. The portrait is made more meaningful by intimacy - an intimacy shared not only by the photographer with his subject but by the audience. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Journey category:
I'm trying to get lost again. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Life category:
To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable... But I have only touched it, just touched it. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Meaning category:
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph per se. It is a photograph which carries the full meaning of the episode. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Methodology category:
- Masters Of Photography...
My own approach is based upon three considerations: First - hands off! Whenever I photograph I do not molest or tamper with or arrange. Second - a sense of place. I try to picture as part of its surroundings, as having roots. Third - a sense of time. Whatever I photograph, I try to show as having its position in the past or in the present. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Mysteries category:
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Photography category:
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Photography category:
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... But I have only touched it, just touched it. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Photography category:
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. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Photography category:
- Popular Photography, August 2007...
To be good, photographs have to be full of the world. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Photography category:
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Possibilities category:
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Profession category:
I've never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning but some phase of photographer I've always been. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Responsibility category:
I would like to see photographers become responsible and photography realize its potential. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Revelation category:
I think the visual life, the truly visual life, must be a great illumination. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Searching category:
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. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Seeing category:
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. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Subject category:
It came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate on people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn't. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Theme category:
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Time category:
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Unknowns category:
The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else's requirement but your own. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Words category:
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. (Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange - From the Work category:
- Dorothea Lange and the Documentary Tradition by Karin Becker...
I worked then as I would not have done, I am sure, if I had gone back to my habitual life. There in my studio on Montgomery Street, I was surrounded by evidences of the Depression. (Dorothea Lange)
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