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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.

From Joel Sternfeld

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

From Joel Sternfeld

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.

From Joel Sternfeld

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

From Joel Sternfeld

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

From Joel Sternfeld

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.

From Joel Sternfeld

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?'

From Joel Sternfeld

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

From Joel Sternfeld

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

From Joel Sternfeld

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.

From Joel Sternfeld

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