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 Copy Share Image
Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged. — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share
I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share
Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share
For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share
I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share
With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do we know… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share
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… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share
I loved the High Line when it was just mine, when I was the only person up there, and I had a private park… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share
The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily. — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share
The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype. — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share
Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share
Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share
