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.
About Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Langewas an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange’s photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
American photojournalist (1895-1965)
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
American photojournalist (1895-1965)
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
American photojournalist (1895-1965)
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.
American photojournalist (1895-1965)