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19 quotes by Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

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A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

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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... →

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A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

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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... →

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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... →

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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

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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... →

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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

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