I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.

- John Pfahl

It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers have…

- John Pfahl

Strangers with puzzled looks were amazingly cooperative in letting me into their rooms with my photographic gear. They let me take down the curtains,…

- John Pfahl

Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval between his two drawings and made a…

- John Pfahl

I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists) looked the way the…

- John Pfahl

As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.

- John Pfahl

I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way in which the …

- John Pfahl

It would have been possible to structure my photographs in such a way that no indicators of the present were discernible. However, I wanted to incorp…

- John Pfahl

I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that work on a more my…

- John Pfahl