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When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', their career skyrocketed. As a photographer, you were very empowered; people came to you, bowing to you and what you represented. Douglas Kirkland

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I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them. Douglas Kirkland

People Photograph Like Talk Obviously Them

I have a genuine philosophy. I do not want to make negative pictures about people, and so I do everything I can to help make them feel comfortable in front of the camera. That is what is going to control your picture, because you are alone if your subject is not with you. And that's the simple answer to getting a good picture. Douglas Kirkland

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Chanel is here forever. She changed fashion, she changed culture, and she changed how people dress. Douglas Kirkland

Fashion Culture People Changed Dress She How Forever Here Chanel

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

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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

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

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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

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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

People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe MOMA would show something, or Chicago. There were no galleries. Nobody bought photographs. Duane Michals

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When I look at green trees on a sunny day, I don't know how to make an interesting picture of that. Edward Burtynsky

Day Picture Trees Sunny Know Look Make How Green Interesting

I have a fondness for when the landscape becomes surreal. Edward Burtynsky

Fondness Becomes Surreal Landscape

Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like. Edward Burtynsky

Somebody Like Referred Subliminal Which Activism

I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament. Edward Burtynsky

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I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out. Edward Burtynsky

I'm of the belief that you pursue your interests, you pull it all in, and you sort it out later. Edward Burtynsky

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