Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Quotes: Dorothea Lange

From the Dorothea Lange American Master documentary, "Grab a Hunk of Lightning"
Dorothea Lange Documentary

Speaking of her first husband was a painter.
“ I should have encouraged him to dip his brush in his own heart’s blood. He was capable of it.”

“Your file of negatives is your biography, there it is!”

“Beauty appears when one feels deeply”

“The assignment was to see what you could bring home, see what is really there what does it look like what does it feel like? What actually is the human condition.”

“There are moments when time stands still. You hope it will wait for you. That fraction of a second captured on that tiny piece of sensitive film…”