The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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creativityartphotographyperceptionA well-established Lange line, quoted consistently in photography literature and exhibition material about her; it matches her documented views on seeing as a discipline prior to the shutter. I cannot name the first print appearance — it is usually cited to interviews and to posthumous collections such as Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime (1982) — so the source stays null.