My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
