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
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.
photographer exhausted possibility
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
over-you necks photographer
I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
photography unattainable photographer
The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
photography mean photographer
To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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.
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.
believe cameras i-believe
I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
photography enough photograph
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
country
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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.
real animal quality
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.