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Dorothea Lange Biography

Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an 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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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.

Bystanders, Conceptions, Increase, Perception, Side, Your Side

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.

Cameras, Life, People, Shares, Shoes

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.

Culture, Eye, Eyes, Life, Photography, Professional

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

Believe, Cameras, I Believe, Living, Camera

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.

Know, Moments, Stands, Stills, Time, Waiting

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

Exhaustion, Hate, Life, Photography, Pick, Work

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

Exhausted, Photographer, Photographing, Possibilities, Possibility, Subject

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

Art, Art Is, Attention, Deeply, Total

Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.

Different, Disabled, Level, People, Perspective, Secure

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

Edges, Life, People, Realize, Realizing

. . . 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.

All Kinds, Came, Kind, People, Pictures

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.

Animal, Places, Quality, Real

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.

Country, Looks, Make, People, Visually

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.

Having, Ignorant, Mind, Territory

You go into a room and you know where you're welcome; you know where you're unwelcome. Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important. 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.

Heart, Hoping, Kind, People, Tell, Tree

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.

Creative, Destroy, Effort, Human, Needs, Time

go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

Head, Neck, Necks, Over You, Passion

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

Human, Human Spirit, Humans, Spirit, Things

Photography today appears to be in a state of flight. . . The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.

Appears, Forces, Photography, Sunday, Today, Unnatural

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

Photographer, Photography, Practically, Unattainable, Undertaking, Visual

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