I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame. — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to the world, it's an interpretation. I could get my camera and point it at two people… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work. — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
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 Image
