{"id":19446,"date":"2018-05-05T05:54:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T09:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=19446"},"modified":"2018-05-05T05:54:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T09:54:16","slug":"22-great-quotes-photographer-dorothea-lange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/19446\/22-great-quotes-photographer-dorothea-lange\/","title":{"rendered":"22 Great Quotes By Photographer Dorothea Lange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nEnjoy this collection of quotes by photographer Dorothea Lange.<br \/>\n\u201cThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cPut your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cI 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.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cOne should really use the camera as though tomorrow you\u2019d be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cWhile 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.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cTo be good, photographs have to be full of the world.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cPhotographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cYou know, so often it&#8217;s just sticking around and being there, remaining there, not swooping out in a cloud of dust: sitting down on the ground with people, letting children look at your camera with their dirty, grimy little hands, and putting their fingers on the lens, and you just let them, because you know that if you will behave in a generous manner, you are apt to receive it, you know?\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cThis benefit of seeing&#8230;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&#8230;the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cIt is not a factual photograph per se. The documentary photograph carries with it another thing, a quality in the subject that the artist responds to. It is a photograph which carries the full meaning of the episode or the circumstance or the situation that can only be revealed \u2013 because you can&#8217;t really recapture it \u2013 by this other quality. There is no real warfare between the artist and the documentary photographer. He has to be both.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cArt is a by-product of an act of total attention.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cI would like to see photographers become responsible and photography realize its potential.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cMy own approach is based upon three considerations. First \u2013 hands off ! Whenever I photograph I do not molest or tamper with or arrange. Second \u2013 a sense of place. I try to picture as part of its surroundings, as having roots. Third \u2013 a sense of time. Whatever I photograph, I try to show as having its position in the past or in the present.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cThe contemplation of things as they are, without error of confusion, without substitution or imposture, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cPhotography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cEvery image he sees, every photograph he takes, becomes in a sense a self-portrait. The portrait is made more meaningful by intimacy &#8211; an intimacy shared not only by the photographer with his subject but by the audience.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cPick a theme and work it to exhaustion&#8230;the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cAs photographers, we turn our attention to the familiarities of which we are a part. So turning, we in our work can speak more than of our subject \u2013 we can speak with them; we can more than speak about our subjects \u2013 we can speak for them. They, given tongue, will be able to speak with and for us. And in this language will be proposed to the lens that with which, in the end, photography must be concerned \u2013 time, and place, and the works of man.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019ve 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 \u2013\u00a0but some phase of photographer I\u2019ve always been.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cIt 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\u2019t.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cI am trying here to say something about the despised, the defeated, the alienated. About death and disaster, about the wounded, the crippled, the helpless, the rootless, the dislocated. About finality. About the last ditch.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<br \/>\n\u201cThe good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.\u201d &#8211; Dorothea Lange<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/category\/photographers-photographs\/\">View more 12 Great Photographs collections here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/photographers\/quotes\/\">Explore The Essential Collection Of Quotes By Photographers.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/photographers\/documentaries\/\">Explore The Essential Collection Of Documentaries On Photographers<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Enjoy this collection of quotes by photographer Dorothea Lange. \u201cThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.\u201d &#8211; 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