John Gutmann - As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be

As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good picture is open to many individual (subjective) associations. I am usually pleased when a viewer finds interpretations that I myself had not been aware of.

- John Gutmann

source: Sally Stein, John Gutmann, Amy Rule (2009). “John Gutmann: the photographer at work”, Yale Univ Pr

topic: Believe, Want, Association, Subjective