“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
Dorothea Lange“You put your camera around your neck in the morning 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.” – Dorothea Lange ('Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life' by Milton Meltzer)”
Milton Meltzer, Dorthea Lange: A Photographer's Life“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.”
Dorothea Lange“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
Dorothea Lange“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.”
Dorothea Lange“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.”
Dorothea Lange“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.”
Dorothea Lange“It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.”
Dorothea Lange“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.”
Dorothea Lange“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
Dorothea Lange