“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

This is what makes photography an art. Good photography does exactly what Michals said. "The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” Anyone can take a photograph, or capture a moment in time, but photographers do more than that. A photographer's objective is to present detail or characteristics of anything that may have been overseen otherwise. This makes the photographer an artist and makes the photographs eye catching and emotional.