Quotes by Dorothea Lange

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Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange

I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

Dorothea Lange

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

Dorothea Lange

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Dorothea Lange

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Dorothea Lange

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Dorothea Lange

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

Dorothea Lange

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

Dorothea Lange

The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.

Dorothea Lange

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

Dorothea Lange

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

Dorothea Lange

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

Dorothea Lange

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

Dorothea Lange

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

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

Dorothea Lange

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

Dorothea Lange

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.

Dorothea Lange

Author Bio

  • NameDorothea Lange
  • DescriptionAmerican photojournalist
  • BornMay 25, 1895
  • DiedOctober 11, 1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Photographer; Artist; Photojournalist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; National Women's Hall Of Fame