I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors… You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic. — John Divola Copy Share Image
The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake… — John Divola Copy Share Image
To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be… — John Divola Copy Share Image
It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the… — John Divola Copy Share Image
I really don't worry too much about what I see through the viewfinder, at least not at that point, especially if I'm using a… — John Divola Copy Share Image
I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors… You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific… — John Divola Copy Share Image
In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime… — John Divola Copy Share Image
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