22 Quotes by Joel Sternfeld

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.