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Joel Sternfeld [1944-0] American

Joel Sternfeld is a fine-art color photographer noted for his large-format documentary pictures of the United States and helping establish color photography as a respected artistic medium.

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Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.		101
You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.		102
The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.		103
Photography has always been capable of manipulation.		104
For 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 - that's what I deeply loved.		105
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.		106
A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.		107
No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.		108
I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau.		109
When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.		110
All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society.		111
I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame.		112
With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do we know about the author and their background? What do I know about the subject?'		113
Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.		114
I loved the High Line when it was just mine, when I was the only person up there, and I had a private park in New York City. I had to make an appointment to see it... I'd walk around. I was all alone.		115
The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.		116

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