Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad and complicated because every stoppage of time refers to the motion of time.
I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to e… - Michael Light
I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to e…
- Michael Light
I was flying planes before I was driving cars. I started gliding when I was fourteen, about when I started photographing. I was a geeky kid, and the … - Michael Light
I was flying planes before I was driving cars. I started gliding when I was fourteen, about when I started photographing. I was a geeky kid, and the …
I am a photographer who likes to make images, but I also want to get a sense and understanding of images that have already been made. I don't fabrica… - Michael Light
I am a photographer who likes to make images, but I also want to get a sense and understanding of images that have already been made. I don't fabrica…
I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because ther… - Michael Light
I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because ther…
I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because… - Michael Light
I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because…
I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera, a … - Michael Light
I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera, a …
I've always been amazed at the vastness of America itself and what it does and how it does it. I'm interested in the mechanics of what makes this cou… - Michael Light
I've always been amazed at the vastness of America itself and what it does and how it does it. I'm interested in the mechanics of what makes this cou…
I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a ted… - Michael Light
I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a ted…
... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth. - Michael Light
... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth.
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