Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Lesy

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Michael Lesy is an American non-fiction writer. His books, which combine historical photographs with original writing, include Wisconsin Death Trip (1973), Real Life: Louisville in the Twenties (1976), Bearing Witness: A Photographic Chronicle of American Life (1982), Visible Light (1985), Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties (2007), Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century (2017), and Snapshots 1971–77.

American - Writer | Born: 1945

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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 personality, sometimes I wonder if it didn't damage my brain.

Michael Lesy

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

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 the first integer in a sequence of recollections that has the power to deny time for the sake of love.

Michael Lesy

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

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

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 strapped on its back. As you walk the streets looking for a place to mate or piss or eat, the camera is on and we will see the world because of you... You carry the camera and we enjoy the world. (On images as autobiography)

Michael Lesy

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Lesy

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