Dorothea Lange
American · 1895–1965
Documentary photographer whose Depression-era images, especially Migrant Mother, became defining symbols of human resilience and social conscience.
Wikipedia ↗“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
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“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.”
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“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.”
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“Bad as it is, the world is full of potentially good photographs. But to be good, photographs have to be full of the world.”
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“Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion. The subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.”
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“The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open.”
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“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.”
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“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
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