Quotes By Jock Sturges
Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more.
Jock Sturges
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.
Jock Sturges
The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.
Jock Sturges
The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
Jock Sturges
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
Jock Sturges
All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
Jock Sturges
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
Jock Sturges
Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.
Jock Sturges
The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.
Jock Sturges
There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.
Jock Sturges