“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” Duane Michals
I think that this is a very important thing for people to realize about photography. While sometimes photographs serve as a device to remember things, and record the past, it is also an at form. Photographs can be used to share perspectives and show hidden secrets and ideas.
“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” Duane Michals
I too believe in the imagination because what you see is shared by everyone else. what you perceive or create from what is there, is entirely unique to you. Being able to captured that by photography, or any other art form, is infinitely more important in order to share your unique perspective.
“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” Berenice Abbott
It's interesting, because the act of photography is entirely in the present. You wait and wait for the perfect moment, try to be quick enough to capture the perfect photo right at the moment it happens, but once the photo has been taken, it is already a thing of the past. The image that you frantically chased after, moment by moment, is already a memory, captured by the photo.
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