Hear Dorothea Lange | Daring to Look : Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field

At the end of her life, Dorothea Lange talked about photography and her life’s work. Her conversations were taped by KQED, the San Francisco public television station between July 1964 and September 1965, the month before she died. The excerpts here are from tapes in the Dorothea Lange Collection at the Oakland Museum of California.

On the camera as a great teacher

“The camera of course is a great teacher, and the more people who use it, the more aware they become of the possibilities of the visual world….A photographer, a professional photographer, is a very lucky person…because he has an instrument that teaches him all the time. It’s no end, it’s inexhaustible the worlds that it reveals.”

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