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Dorothea Lange
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“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 (1895–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dorothea Lange (1978) Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life. p. vii
“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.”
Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life by Elizabeth Partridge (1994)
“I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it.”
Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement about Lange's most famous photograph titled "Migrant Mother", in Popular Photography (February 1960).