Joel Sternfeld Quotes

Joel Sternfeld
American Photographer
Born: Jun 30, 1944
Even Nature People Think Work You
Related authors: Annie Leibovitz Ansel Adams Berenice Abbott Diane Arbus Dorothea Lange Gordon Parks Imogen Cunningham Robert Mapplethorpe
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. Joel Sternfeld
You Strange World Black Black And White Looking White Photograph Color Abstract Strange World
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city. Joel Sternfeld
Nature People Some People Consider City Some Derived Utopia
When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work. Joel Sternfeld
Work You Power Think Unity Reach Squares
You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. Joel Sternfeld
You Photography Wonderful Medium Out Photo Degrees Individual Take Call Makes Problematic Anything Explains
A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs. Joel Sternfeld
Must Photographer Choose Painters Palette
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. Joel Sternfeld
People Frame Point Could Camera Left Person Get Going Include Homeless Right Two Third Two People
With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do we know about the author and their background? What do I know about the subject?' Joel Sternfeld
You Book Interpretation Background Photograph About Know Subject Left Author Same Modes Ask
Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged. Joel Sternfeld
Respect Photographs Him Due Burned Even
I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau. Joel Sternfeld
Nature Water Sense Everything City Dreamt About Beach Had Powerful New Most Most Powerful Read Up York Just New York New York City Grew Which Harbor Even Seasons Belle
The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype. Joel Sternfeld
Time Digital Our Our Time Like Look Print Makes Becoming Start

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