Joel Sternfeld quotes
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“No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.”
-- Joel SternfeldSource : "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.
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“The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.”
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“When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.”
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“Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.”
-- Joel SternfeldSource : "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.
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“The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.”
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“Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.”
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“Photography has always been capable of manipulation.”
-- Joel SternfeldSource : "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.
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“For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality - the changing of the seasons - thats what I deeply loved.”
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“I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.”
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“Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of the 1940s and 50s were no such thing. Ansell Adams would slap a red filter on his lens, then spend three days burning and dodging in the dark room, making his prints. That's a manipulation. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.”
-- Joel SternfeldSource : "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.
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“Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.”
-- Joel Sternfeld
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