I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that work on a more mysterious level, that approach the truth by a more circuitous route. — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings. — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
It would have been possible to structure my photographs in such a way that no indicators of the present were discernible. However, I wanted… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
Strangers with puzzled looks were amazingly cooperative in letting me into their rooms with my photographic gear. They let me take down the curtains,… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution. — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while at the… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists) looked the… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that work on… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval between his… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view. — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
