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Photography Quotes by Michael Light

8 Photography quotes by Michael Light

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Michael Light’s words on photography strike a balance between technical curiosity and poetic observation. This brief collection of eight remarks gives a clear sense of how he perceives light, landscape, and the act of seeing, making it a handy reference for fans of his work.

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I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself,…

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I am a photographer who likes to make images, but I also want to get a sense and understanding of images that…

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I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures.

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Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad…

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I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera,…

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... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of…

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I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on…

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I was flying planes before I was driving cars. I started gliding when I was fourteen, about when I started photographing. I…

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I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be…

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The pilot says, "Where do you want to go?" and that's always a rather existential question, because naturally I think a bit about where…

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When I go up, especially if I'm paying for a small helicopter and pilot, I'm on. I've got an hour and a half and…

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I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because I…

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I am a photographer who likes to make images, but I also want to get a sense and understanding of images that have already…

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I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures.

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Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America.

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I have a profound passion for the act of flying. It's very freeing, with an intense physicality, but it also gives an Olympian, god's-eye…

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Flying was certainly formative for me; I have a deep and lasting ease with it as a result.

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Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad and complicated…

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I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera, a military…

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What better way to actually deal with L.A. than to get above it and engage with the horizontality and scale of the basin itself?

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We have not only the right, but a specific duty, to honestly and unflinchingly look at all aspects of our world, both the one…

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I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture,…

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Once one crosses a conceptual threshold of rethinking what nature might or might not be, it can multiply outward radically. The world becomes a…

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