Joel Sternfeld quotes

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily. (Joel Sternfeld)
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city. View quote
Joel Sternfeld
Photography has always been capable of manipulation. View quote
Joel Sternfeld
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. View quote
Joel Sternfeld
The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype. View quote
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When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work. View quote
Joel Sternfeld
Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged. View quote
Joel Sternfeld
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. View quote
Joel Sternfeld
A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs. View quote
Joel Sternfeld