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Response to three of the quotes:

“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 agree with Duane Michals to the most part but I think there might be cases where I would disagree with his quote. There are times when a photographer has to look at a photograph like the eyes of a common man. A perfect example would be media photographers. Although they can add some creativity even to these photographs, but the truth and meaning has to be conveyed.   

“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” Duane Michals

•  In today's age it is very much possible to show even what we cannot see in an image. Photo manipulation can do the job to show even more elements which were originally in the image.  But many times photographers do leave their image as such which makes the viewer think about the meaning behind it imagine more than whats visible

“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.” Arnold Newman

• Here Amold Newman says that photography is something totally not real. I disagree with him as we see photography at so many places in our lives where it is used to show the reality and not an illusion. Although sometimes it does show illution. It totally depends on the photographers intent.