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

~Dorothea Lange

Topics: Altering Holding Instant Life Out Out Of Time Photography Still Takes Time

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

~Dorothea Lange

Topics: Camera How Learning See Tool Without

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

~Dorothea Lange

Topics: Blind Camera Really Should Though Tomorrow Use You

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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

Topics: False Know Limiting Looking Means Often Only Own Photographing Preconceptions Then Time Very Which You Your Ahead

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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. The artist is a professional see-er.

~Dorothea Lange

Topics: Artist Culture Eyes More Only Our Phenomenon Physiological Professional See Seeing Than

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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.

~Dorothea Lange

Topics: Another Eyes How Little More Nothing Our Own Perhaps Permit Photograph Proves Province See Tell Than Us Which While

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

~Dorothea Lange

Topics: Exhaustion Hate Love Must Pick Something Subject Theme Truly Work You

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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

~Dorothea Lange

Topics: Documentary Factual Photograph

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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

~Dorothea Lange

Topics: Closely Country Ever Itself No Country

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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

~Dorothea Lange

Topics: Believe Camera Living Using I Believe I Believe In

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: May 26th, 1895

Died: October 11th, 1965

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