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.
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.
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.
pride important cameras
I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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.
passion over-you necks
go in over your head, not just up to your neck.