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Dorothea Lange Quotes: To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
         

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.


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