Duane Michals Photography Quotations
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- All Photography Quotes
- Henri Cartier Bresson
- Ansel Adams
- Susan Sontag
- Elliott Erwitt
- Chuck Close
- Edward Weston
- Sebastiao Salgado
- Garry Winogrand
- Diane Arbus
- Sam Abell
- John Szarkowski
- Walker Evans
- Berenice Abbott
- Ernst Haas
- John Sexton
- Robert Adams
- David Hockney
- Harry Callahan
- Richard Avedon
- Wynn Bullock
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Memories Quotes
If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into Rue Mimosas, looking for the house of Rene Magritte. It was August, 1965. I was 33 years old and about to meet the man whose profound and witty surrealist paintings had contradicted my assumptions about photography.
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Moving Quotes
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.
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Trying Quotes
Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?