Michael Lesy
Michael Lesy
Michael Lesyis a writer and professor of literary journalism at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. His books, which combine historical photographs with his own writing, include Wisconsin Death Trip, Bearing Witness: A Photographic Chronicle of American Life, Visible Light, Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties, and Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century with Lisa Stoffer...
people cameras
Cameras don't take pictures, people take pictures.
dog video looks
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)