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
photography unattainable photographer
The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
benefits looks quiet
This benefit of seeing...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...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
photographer exhausted possibility
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
photography documentaries factual
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
spirit humans human-spirit
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
people kind all-kinds
... it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn't.
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.
beautiful believe i-believe
I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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.