Dorothea Lange / le familier devient mysterieux

"(...) Just to show something, anything, in the photographic view is to show that it is hidden. But it is not necessary for photographers to point up the mystery with exotic or exceptionnaly striking subjects. When Dorothea Lange urges her colleagues to concentrate on 'the familiar', it is with the understanding that the familiar, rendered by a sensitive use of the camera, will thereby become mysterious. (...)"

Susan Sontag / On photography / Penguin Books / 2002 pour l'édition consultée / p121