“The choice, though, is not between scrupulous obedience and ecstatic abandon. The choice runs right down the middle. If you really want to know how to fly, you need to know how to walk.” — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
My idea of a good job would be to be paid really well to sit on my ass all day to look at pictures. — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
Remember the cliche: ... "Cameras don't take pictures, people take pictures." — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
Look, I really do not care about you. What I care about is the worlds that you bear witness to. You are nothing more… — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
For years and years and years... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it changed my… — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments. — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as goad to… — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever. — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
“The choice, though, is not between scrupulous obedience and ecstatic abandon. The choice runs right down the middle. If you really want to know… — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
