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The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

~Duane Michals

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Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?

~Duane Michals

Topics: Any Arts Better Deal Does Good Invisible Kind Life Nature Never Other Photography Questions Real Real Value Reality Simply Superficial Than Things Truth Value

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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

Topics: Appearances Because Believed Challenge Deals Doing Done Even Find Hundreds Impossible Know Like Look Nature Never People Portraits Questioning Really Still Stopped Terrific Them Think Though Very

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Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

~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

Topics: East Life Look People Spectators Tend Thing West

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I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

~Duane Michals

Topics: Anger Enough Much Photographers Photography Polite Pretty Think Too I Think

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My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

~Duane Michals

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Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

~Duane Michals

Topics: Boring Copy Large Make Painters Painting Photograph Photographs Simply Them Use

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I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer.

~Duane Michals

Topics: Commercial Complete Done Lot Photographer Work

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: February 18th, 1932

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