Proof

Copyright Duane Michals 1974

This Photograph Is My Proof by Duane Michals is an extremely powerful image with equally powerful text. Arresting and, to me, represents what makes photography so magical. It’s ability to capture and freeze in time moments like this …  so as to somehow prove the real of our lives.

A truly amazing photograph.

Intimate and beautiful and calm. 

The words written say:

This photograph is my proof. There was that afternoon, when things were still good between us, and she embraced me, and we were so happy. It did happen, she did love me. Look see for yourself!

Michals has also captured in a quote the thing about photography that makes it so hard to define:

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. 

Duane Michals