Blog #16-18

“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

 I think that this is basically saying that it is very easy just to capture a person as is but, it is more difficult to convey an emotion through that image. Showing that someone is provocative might be something that is a little bit more difficult to do.

“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” Duane Michals

I feel that the imagination is very important and i feel this quote is somewhat saying. The things that you cannot see are often more important than the things you can see. At the same time this is when you can take for granite something that you always see verses something that you either cant see or normally see. 

“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer—and often the supreme disappointment.” ~Ansel Adams

 I think that this means it is very difficult to capture landscapes and when you do so it shows that you are a true photographer. Landscapes are often difficult to capture in a way that has not been done before so that creates more of a challenge.

“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

 

Photographs are real but fake at the same time. i understand that they only capture moments in time but at the same time it is not always going to be true to what the picture shows. It becomes a way for us to convey how we feel about our reality. 

 

“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” Berenice Abbott

I think that this is kind of a contradiction because photography is technically in the present but once it has been captured it then becomes in the past. so it is only in the present for a split second and then it just becomes another part of the past.