Zitat des Tages von Duane Michals:
The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.
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.
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.
I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer.
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.
You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.
A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
