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 enough photograph
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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.
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.
photography documentaries factual
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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.
photography unattainable photographer
The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
life photography hate
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
photography eye artist
Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
photography use unattainable
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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.
photography use unattainable
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
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.