Joel Sternfeld famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

No individual photo explains anything. Thatâ€™s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.
-- Joel Sternfeld

#Photography #Wonderful #Individual
The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.
-- Joel Sternfeld

#Jobs #Color #Levels
When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.
-- Joel Sternfeld

#Thinking #Squares #Unity
Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.
-- Joel Sternfeld

#Photograph #Cartier #Burned
The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.
-- Joel Sternfeld

#Looks #Digital #Becoming
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.
-- Joel Sternfeld

#Cities #People #Utopia
Photography has always been capable of manipulation.
-- Joel Sternfeld

#Photography #Manipulation #Capable
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.
-- Joel Sternfeld

#Suicide #Color #Careers
I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.
-- Joel Sternfeld

#Trying
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 Sternfeld

#Dark #People #Filters
Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
-- Joel Sternfeld

#Black And White #World #Strange

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