February 18, 2012

i think that the visual life, the truly visual life, must be a very great illumination; i have never doubted it. i wonder how many photographers are even aware that there is such a thing….the discipline & the difficulties of attaining this—-because really its eXploring another world—-are so immense that i back up from it. i have had a few…short periods where i came close 2 it. those are my best periods…you wake up with it in the morning & you sustain it. you live it. you breathe it. you dont read a newspaper. youre cut off from the moorings of the ppl around you. you actually are nourished & sustained by your eyesight. you look in2 everything, not only what it looks like but what it feels like. thats the consuming thing, tremendous thing. out of that sort of attention great photographs will be made…and the best photographers have it once in a while. —dorothea lange

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