Joel Sternfeld Quotes
- Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
- The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.
- Photography has always been capable of manipulation.
- Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.
- A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.
- No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always…
- Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.
- When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.
- The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.