Blog Prompts #16, #17, & #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 disagree with the statement that photographs should be provocative because I believe it is important to have images of our past so we can recall memories with better detail. I also believe it takes great power to reproduce somebody's face because it is not always easy to catch personality through they eye of a camera. I believe it is important to show the person in true form not in a "new way."

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

I disagree with this as well. It is important to use your imagination but there comes a time and a place where one will start making someone up in their head and create them as they want them to be.

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

 

I will agree with this statement because I find it difficult to make landscape look interesting or different than what other photographers have done in the past. 

 

 **“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

This could be true in some cases. Photos that we take are memories that we want to keep. At the same time, when one is capturing an action shot it is hard to create an illusion.  

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

I believe a photo represent the past. Once the photo is taken it does become the past insistently, it happened. But I do believe that one can recreate an image to make it look like the past.  When I say past, I mean years back.