As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution. — John Pfahl Impossible Copy Share Image
I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings. — John Pfahl Finals Copy Share Image
Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while… — John Pfahl Aesthetic Copy Share Image
It would have been possible to structure my photographs in such a way that no indicators of the present were discernible. However,… — John Pfahl Feels Copy Share Image
Strangers with puzzled looks were amazingly cooperative in letting me into their rooms with my photographic gear. They let me take down… — John Pfahl Cooperatives Copy Share Image
It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all,… — John Pfahl Art Copy Share Image
While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the… — John Pfahl Cameras Copy Share Image
I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that… — John Pfahl Ambiguity Copy Share Image
I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color… — John Pfahl American landscape Copy Share Image
People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed… — John Pfahl Affected Copy Share Image
I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists)… — John Pfahl Archetype Copy Share Image
Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval… — John Pfahl Able Copy Share Image
