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Dorothea Lange Quotes

American - Photographer | May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Life Time Art Photography Out Still

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Learning Camera See Without Tool

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

People Camera See Without Instrument

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.

Time Looking You Know Ahead Own

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

Spirit Human Spirit Human Things

The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.

Heart Tree People Better You Find

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.

Eyes Culture Artist Seeing More See

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Tomorrow Blind Camera You Should

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

Enough Photograph Picturesque

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Work Love Hate You Theme Exhaustion

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.

Eyes Nothing More See Tell Own

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

Country No Country Ever Itself

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