How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
Duane MichalsOne of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.
Duane MichalsThe majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
Duane MichalsI 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