“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.”~Duane Michals. Write a brief reaction to this quote. Is this quote applicable to your experience with photography? What does it mean to you? Do you agree with the idea presented or disagree?
I agree with the idea that Duane Michals presented. Photography does have to deal with the appearance of things and without an explanation or at least some deeper thought, you only know the image that you see. You don't know if there is a significance to it or a deeper meaning or if it is an illusion all together. For the most part, a photograph tells a story, it's not simply just an image. I suppose you can just take a picture of a piece of fruit on a table and have it be just that, but then you have to think why you choose that piece of fruit and why you choose to put it in the spot you did. Taking a photograph can be quick and seem mindless, but there is always meaning to what we do, even if we do it without thinking. I personally don't have a lot of experience with photography, so this makes me think of the Sex and the City episode with the photographer who used females dressed as males as his subjects. They appeared merely as men, dressed up differently (as businessmen, construction workers, etc.) and photographed. You would have never known that they were women. A photograph can look as simple or complicated as you make it, but if you really think about all the aspects of it, it will be more than it appears to be.
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