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
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
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way. — Jock Sturges Copy Share
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
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me. — Jock Sturges Copy Share
I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time. — Jock Sturges Copy Share
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
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened. — Jock Sturges Copy Share
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
We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off. — Jock Sturges Copy Share
They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left. — Jock Sturges Copy Share
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
Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful. — Jock Sturges Copy Share
If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm… — Jock Sturges Copy Share
Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and… — Jock Sturges Copy Share
