“I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most photographs never transcend being just snapshots. When a great photographer does infuse the snapshot with his personality and vision, it can be transformed into something truly moving and beautiful.” ThinkingDoeBeautifulMovingVisionPersonalityAreasPhotographerPhotographTransformedSnapshots Author:Duane Michals
“I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs.” NeedsMeanPhotographerPainterDancerTap Dancers Author:Duane Michals
“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.” MenWayArtIdeasLightMightFacesMovingFormStreetsBuildingPaperPhotographyPhotographerInventionRecognitionOld ManFreakAlchemyBlake Author:Duane Michals
“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?” FeelsShouldTryingLooksDoeReasonFacesRoomsForeverSubjectsGoes OnPhotographyPhotographerPhotographInsightDescription Author:Duane Michals
“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.” DealsPhotographyPhotographerPhotographAppearanceInsightfulCamera And PhotographyInspiring PhotographyArt PhotographyNikon Author:Duane Michals
“I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.” WritingThousandPhotographyBirdPhotographerPhotographClicheDodo Bird Author:Duane Michals
“Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.” PeopleKnowsPhotographyPhotographerDrawingInferencePresumptuous Author:Duane Michals
“I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.” ThinkingEnoughPhotographyPhotographerPolite Author:Duane Michals
“The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.” KnowsBelieveEyeAcceptingFocusMajorityPhotographerObvious Author:Duane Michals
