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Duane Michals
American
Photographer
Born:
Feb 18
,
1932
Myself
Nothing
People
Photography
Think
Work
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Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.
Duane Michals
Love
Saying
Relationship
You
Emotions
Language
Other
Say
Complexity
Know
Equal
Because
Human
Love You
Lovers
Human Emotions
Really
Even
Each
Deepest
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
Great
You
People
Face
Somebody
Think
Ways
Tell
Photograph
Photographs
Seeing
Magic
Takes
New
Know
Powers
Provocative
New Ways
Reproduce
Should
You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
Duane Michals
You
Disappointment
Fear
Lust
Photograph
Photographs
See
Someone
Feels
How
Anxieties
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
Duane Michals
Photography
Nothing
Deals
Appearances
Appears
Exquisitely
Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
Duane Michals
Life
Work
Death
Myself
Nature
Me
My Life
Nothing
Sleeping
State
Corpse
Photograph
Dream
Tells
Photographers
Find
Temporal
About
Someone
Facts
Itself
Very
Want
Interested
Transient
Event
Thing
Things
To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
Duane Michals
Reality
Nothing
Photograph
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.
Duane Michals
Me
Man
Father
Thought
Important
Say
Photo
Tell
Photograph
More
Write
Like
Looked
Him
Itself
Than
Order
Cannot
Which
Much
Express
Art has to address eternal issues.
Duane Michals
Art
Address
Issues
Eternal
I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.
Duane Michals
Nature
People
Impossible
Challenge
Think
Hundreds
Though
Find
Never
Like
Know
Look
Terrific
Because
Deals
Still
Doing
Questioning
Very
Done
Stopped
Them
Really
Appearances
Even
Believed
Portraits
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.
Duane Michals
Great
Photography
Writing
Words
Worth
Birds
Photograph
Thousand
Photographers
Thousand Words
Photographs
Cliche
Because
Got
Lot
Flak
Anyway
Originally
In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.
Duane Michals
Life
People
East
Tend
Look
West
Thing
Spectators
I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer.
Duane Michals
Work
Complete
Photographer
Lot
Commercial
Done
A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'
Duane Michals
Walk
Looking
Out
Photographers
Something
Around
Lot
Very
Interested
Much
Here
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