Attention Quote by Michael Light

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…

— Michael Light

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…

— Michael Light

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…

— Michael Light

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…

— Michael Light

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

— Michael Light

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

— Michael Light

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…

— Michael Light

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

— Michael Light

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…

— Michael Light

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…

— Michael Light

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?

— Michael Light

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

— Michael Light