I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
Dorothea LangeYou 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.
Dorothea LangeYou know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
Dorothea LangePhotographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
Dorothea LangeYou go into a room and you know where you're welcome; you know where you're unwelcome.Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.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.
Dorothea Lange