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
hands meddle
Hands off! I do not molest what I photograph, I do not meddle and I do not arrange.
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.
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.
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.
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.