Best 11 quotes of Joel Sternfeld on MyQuotes

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

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.

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

No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get this medium to say what you need it to say. Because photography has a certain verisimilitude, it has gained a currency as truthful - but photographs have always been convincing lies.

No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

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.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

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

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

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.