Dorothea Lange è stata una fotografa documentaria statunitense. Il suo nome alla nascita era Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn, ma decise di farsi chiamare Dorothea Lange, prendendo il cognome della madre. Wikipedia
“La macchina fotografica è uno strumento che insegna alle persone come vedere senza la macchina.”
Origine: Citato in Milton Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life, Paperback, 2000; citato in A cosa serve la fotografia http://www.ilpost.it/2016/05/19/dorothea-lange-fotografia/, ilPost.it, 19 maggio 2016.
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
Dorothea Lange (1978) Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life. p. vii
Contesto: 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.
“I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet.”
Statement about Lange's most famous photograph titled "Migrant Mother", in Popular Photography (February 1960.
Contesto: 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.
As quoted in Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life by Elizabeth Partridge (1994)
