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“As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.”

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It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers…

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I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.

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It would have been possible to structure my photographs in such a way that no indicators of the present were discernible. However, I wanted…

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Strangers with puzzled looks were amazingly cooperative in letting me into their rooms with my photographic gear. They let me take down the curtains,…

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Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while at the…

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I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists) looked the…

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I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that work on…

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Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval between his…

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I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way…

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People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn…

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While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view.

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