Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Langewas an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth26 May 1895
CityHoboken, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Dorothea Lange quotes about
waiting moments stills
You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
over-you necks photographer
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.
phases photographer
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.
lions photographer accidents
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
photography use unattainable
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. I have only touched it, just touched it.
effort creative needs
Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
your-side bystanders perception
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions.
ocean artist beats
Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
photography mind needs
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.
trying way fields
When you are doing a lot of hard fast field work, it's a physical necessity to forget every day. You can't try to remember it in any continuity. You get so burdened if you try to do it the other way. You can't dictate to your material... We found our way in, slid in on the edges. We used our hunches. And it was hard, hard living.
photography sunday today
Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
shoes people body
You put 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. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
perspective people different
Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
photography enough photograph
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.