The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.
Joel SternfeldEven the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.
Joel SternfeldSome people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.
Joel SternfeldNo individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get this medium to say what you need it to say. Because photography has a certain verisimilitude, it has gained a currency as truthful - but photographs have always been convincing lies.
Joel Sternfeld