Remember the cliche: ... "Cameras don't take pictures, people take pictures."

- Michael Lesy

For years and years and years... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it changed my perso…

- Michael Lesy

Look, I really do not care about you. What I care about is the worlds that you bear witness to. You are nothing more than a dog with a video camera s…

- Michael Lesy

By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as goad to memory, it is often t…

- Michael Lesy

Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.

- Michael Lesy

My idea of a good job would be to be paid really well to sit on my ass all day to look at pictures.

- Michael Lesy