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
photography sunday today
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.
trying way fields
When you are doing a lot of hard fast field work, it's a physical necessity to forget every day. You can't try to remember it in any continuity. You get so burdened if you try to do it the other way. You can't dictate to your material... We found our way in, slid in on the edges. We used our hunches. And it was hard, hard living.
heart people tree
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.
life photography eye
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.
photography mind needs
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.
ocean artist beats
Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
your-side bystanders perception
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.
effort creative needs
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.
lions photographer accidents
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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.
beautiful believe i-believe
I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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.
photography documentaries factual
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
spirit humans human-spirit
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.