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Quote by Dorothea Lange
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell

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

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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. – Dorothea Lange

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I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph. – Berenice Abbott

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Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. – Author Unknown

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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. – John Berger

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