"Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind……" — Duane Michals
"Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?"
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Duane Michals
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Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
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How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and…
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If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as…
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Art has to address eternal issues.
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To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
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Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which…
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Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me
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Art is really whispering, not shouting.
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Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion…
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If I was concerned about being accepted, I would have been doing Ansel Adams lookalikes, because that was easily accepted.…
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I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one…
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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…
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