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 complete panorama. Now, 163 years later, I was able to use his great invention to elaborate on his youthful dream of capturing and fixing the fleeting image. In doing so, I may also have added another little bit to the soul of this extraordinary place.
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
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
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
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…
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
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…
I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings. - John Pfahl
I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.
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
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 …
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
Strangers with puzzled looks were amazingly cooperative in letting me into their rooms with my photographic gear. They let me take down the curtains,…
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
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…
As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution. - John Pfahl
As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.
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
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…
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