Quotes by Michael Light

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.

Cameras

Gravestone

Photograph

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.

Age

Beautiful

Degrees

Flying was certainly formative for me; I have a deep and lasting ease with it as a result.

Ease

Flying

Results

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 fabricate worlds; I pay attention to the things that already surround us.

Attention

Understanding

World

I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don’t work as pictures.

Levels

Not Interested

Subjects

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 military photographer, or Mike Light really doesn’t matter. What matters is the context of the final photograph and the meaning it generates within that context.

Light

Military

What Matters

I have a profound passion for the act of flying. It’s very freeing, with an intense physicality, but it also gives an Olympian, god’s-eye view, which fuels a larger cerebral and structural analysis.

Eye

Passion

Views

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 there’s nowhere to “escape” to on the planet in pursuit of a hermetic pastoralism or a redemptive wilderness sublime.

Idyllic

Noble

Sublime

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 engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.

Ocean

Sublime

West

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 tedious white matt frame.

Photography

Struggle

Wall

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America

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Beautiful

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Clock Is Ticking

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Dancing

Deals

Degrees

Ease

Evil

Eye

Flying

Garden

Gravestone

Idyllic

Interesting

Kids

Kind

Letting Go

Levels

Light

Looks

Los Angeles

Lucky

Might

Military

Mind

Noble

Not Interested

Ocean

Our World

Passion

Photograph

Photography

Pilots

Responsibility

Results

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School

Silly

Splendor

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Quotes by Michael Light

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.

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.

Flying was certainly formative for me; I have a deep and lasting ease with it as a result.

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 fabricate worlds; I pay attention to the things that already surround us.

I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don’t work as pictures.

I have a profound passion for the act of flying. It’s very freeing, with an intense physicality, but it also gives an Olympian, god’s-eye view, which fuels a larger cerebral and structural analysis.

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 there’s nowhere to “escape” to on the planet in pursuit of a hermetic pastoralism or a redemptive wilderness sublime.

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 engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.

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 tedious white matt frame.

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