Dorothea Lange Quotes

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  La cámara es un instrumento que enseña a ver sin cámara.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspiración, Fotografía, Creatividad

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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  La fotografía toma un instante del tiempo, altera la vida deteniéndola.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspiración, Vida, Cambio

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• To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

  Dorothea Lange

  Arte, Atención, Arte Es

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• I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

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  Pride, Important, Cameras

  Dorothea Lange, Keith F. Davis, Kelle A. Botkin (1995). “The photographs of Dorothea Lange”, Harry N. Abrams

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• 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.

  Dorothea Lange

  Waiting, Moments, Stills

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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  Hay que utilizar la cámara como si mañana te fueras a quedar ciego.

  Dorothea Lange

  Fotografía, Realidad, Cámaras

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else's requirement but your own.

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  Ignorant, Mind, Territory

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• 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.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Mean, Photographer

  Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

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• Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Photography, Eye

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• Elige un tema y trabájalo hasta la extenuación... el tema debe ser algo que realmente ames o que realmente odies.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Photography, Hate

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• 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.

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  Shoes, People, Cameras

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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• The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

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  Photograph, Objects, Consequence

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• 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.

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  Looks, Benefits, Quiet

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• I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

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  Believe, Cameras, I Believe

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• 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.

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  Bystanders, Your Side, Perception

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• It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

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  Life, Photography, Enough

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

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  People, Poverty, Faces

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• I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.

  Dorothea Lange

  Mind, Gone, Instinct

  Fuente: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Una fotografía documental no es una fotografía de hechos.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Photography, Documentaries

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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• I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

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  Hermoso, Creer, Creo

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• 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.

  Dorothea Lange

  Over You, Necks, Photographer

  Dorothea Lange, Keith F. Davis, Kelle A. Botkin (1995). “The photographs of Dorothea Lange”, Harry N. Abrams

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• No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.

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  País, Gente, Miradas

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• 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.

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  Life, Photography, Mind

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• The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Unattainable, Photographer

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• Aunque quizá haya un ámbito en el que la fotografía no pueda decirnos nada más que lo que vemos con nuestros propios ojos, hay otro en el que nos demuestra lo poco que nuestros ojos nos permiten ver.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Photography, Eye

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