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 an interpretation. I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame. You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. There's an infinite number of ways you can do this: photographs have always been authored.
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
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
I'm trying to take pictures of less and less. - Joel Sternfeld
I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city. - Joel Sternfeld
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.
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
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…
Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. - Joel Sternfeld
Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily. - Joel Sternfeld
The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.
When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work. - Joel Sternfeld
When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.
Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged. - Joel Sternfeld
Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.
The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype. - Joel Sternfeld
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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