No individual photo explains anything. Thatโs what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.
Joel SternfeldThe digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.
Joel SternfeldSome people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.
Joel SternfeldFor me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality - the changing of the seasons - thats what I deeply loved.
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