American - Photographer | 1947 -
The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.
Jock Sturges
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That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
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I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
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In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that.
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If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.
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The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.
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I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
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We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
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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.
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When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.
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But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
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No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
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