“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 this quotation. For me, the photographs that are the most meaningful are the ones that capture the subject's personality the most closely. It is not always easy to take a photograph of a person that captures their personality and the traits that are the most memorable about them. It definitely takes a good amount of skill. A photograph of a person that shows them in a new way that is not familiar might not be as meaningful to the viewer.
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