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
hands meddle
Hands off! I do not molest what I photograph, I do not meddle and I do not arrange.
benefit extricate maddening mob pause quick quiet viewer willing
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.
learning
A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.
photography use unattainable
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
photograph objects consequence
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
photography mean photographer
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.
people realizing edges
Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.
photography cat people
Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.
people poverty faces
We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.
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.
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.