“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 feel like I both agree and disagree with this statement. There is some element of mystery that can be introduced through photography, but it has also become really easy to take pictures of others. To make a photograph provocative, the photographer must take elements of the environment and subject into close consideration. On the other hand, a lot of pictures are able to unintentionally be provocative - Almost as if it happened by mistake. The last statement of the quote about seeing people in new ways is completely true. Photographs allow us to easily reconsider our natural assumptions and reframe people in new ways.
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