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
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
