Photography Quotes by John Pfahl

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

I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.

— John Pfahl

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

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

As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.

— John Pfahl

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

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

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

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

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

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

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