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
people realizing edges
Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.
art attention art-is
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention,
inspirational photography creativity
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
inspirational photography black-and-white
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
benefit extricate maddening mob pause quick quiet viewer willing
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.
hands meddle
Hands off! I do not molest what I photograph, I do not meddle and I do not arrange.