“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” Duane Michals
I really like this quote. Everything is what you make of it. If not for the imagination, everyone would be boring and the exact same. Imagination is somewhat what makes for good art and photography. Imagination drives creativity and it is what makes one interpret something the way one does. What you cannot see is far more important because that is what drives us to do almost everything.
“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
I do not agree with the quote. I think photography is very real. It is a way in which people are able to see beyond their own worlds in order to expand their knowledge. Sure, the photographer does choose what they wish to portray because a photograph cannot be a movie, but it represents something that is real. No matter what, the raw photograph taken in the moment is real, and I it is interesting to argue otherwise.
“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” Berenice Abbott
This is an interesting way to look at photography. It really is a basic, true statement. Once something happens, it is in the past. What I just wrote is now in the past. However, photographs are a place where the past comes alive in a sense. It is a snapshot taken of an exact moment that can never be replicated which is what makes it so intriguing and individualistic. I think one can relive the past as if it were the present through looking at a photograph.
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