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
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.
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.
country people looks
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.
perspective people different
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.
eye vocabulary people
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.
shoes people body
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.
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.
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 cat people
Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.
people poverty faces
We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.
people realizing edges
Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.
learning
A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.
A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.
believe cameras i-believe
I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.