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
inspirational photography black-and-white
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
direct disappears people substitute
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.
learning
A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.
A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.
behind fellow hoping people sleeve wear
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.
hands meddle
Hands off! I do not molest what I photograph, I do not meddle and I do not arrange.