No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get thi…

- Joel Sternfeld

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

- Joel Sternfeld

I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.

- Joel Sternfeld

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

- Joel Sternfeld

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

- Joel Sternfeld

Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to the world, it's…

- Joel Sternfeld

Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.

- Joel Sternfeld

The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.

- Joel Sternfeld

Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of the 1940…

- Joel Sternfeld