Joel Sternfeld Quotes

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

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

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

Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.

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

No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

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

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.