“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.”
~Duane Michals.
Do you agree or disagree with this quote? Why?
I would have to agree with Duane Michals, in that photography deals with the appearance of an object. It can be framed, manipulated, and shot in infinite ways. You can look at any given photo and have no idea what you are looking at, however it can be appealing or visually communicate something powerful. I also agree with the second part of Duane's quote "nothing is what it appears to be" , this is true as well, because you are never looking at a real object when you are viewing a photo, you are simply viewing a photo of something. It's always 2-d object either physically or digitally. This parallels Rene Magritte's famous painting of a pipe, which has a clever caption of "this is not a pipe", because it is in fact a painting and not an object.
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