American - Photographer | February 18, 1932 -
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
Duane Michals
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To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
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The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
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I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.
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I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.
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Art has to address eternal issues.
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The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
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Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.
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I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
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Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
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In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.
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My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
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