“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
1) Sure photographs should make the viewer is the world in new ways but in some ways just taking a picture can make the viewer see things differently. Looking at a photo that hasn't been altered in any way just striaght from the negative can have an affect on people emotions, thoughts, being able to relate to whats going on in the photograph thats the magic.
“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer—and often the supreme disappointment.” ~Ansel Adams
“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” Duane Michals
2) The power of imagination its what gives our lives hope and something to believe in to give us meaning. To me imagination is everything and at times I get lost in it trying to escape from my reality and find the world I belong in. For the world that is my reality is dismal and depressing and a place I keep running away from To beleive in something thats not there that is what gives us hope.
“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.” Arnold Newman
“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” Berenice Abbott
3) Once the shutter closes it becomes the past thats how a photograph works it doesn't represent the present as much as it represents the past. But photography is like our memory it captures moments in time and preserves them so that we look back on our pasts and remember what has happened.
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