360 degrees Quote by Joel Sternfeld

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

— Joel Sternfeld

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

Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of…

— Joel Sternfeld

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

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

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

— Joel Sternfeld

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

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

When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.

— Joel Sternfeld

I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.

— Joel Sternfeld

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

— Joel Sternfeld

The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.

— Joel Sternfeld