Jock Sturges Quotes

• When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.

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• What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree – a devastating degree – is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.

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• What I’m good at is making art.

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• We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

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• Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot’s done.

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• They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

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• 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.

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• There isn’t a person alive who doesn’t like being caressed.

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• There are photographs that I don’t take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

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• 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.

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• The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

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• The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

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• The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they’re really happy to be there.

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• 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.

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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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• 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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• Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they’re even more beautiful.

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• Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

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• 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.

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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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Birth:	1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Photographer

About

Jock Sturges was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is an American photographer, best known for his images of nude adolescents and their families. He graduated with a BFA in Perceptual Psychology and Photography from Marlboro College and received an MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1990, his San Francisco studio was raided by FBI officers and his equipment seized. A grand jury subsequently declined to bring an indictment against him. In 1998 unsuccessful attempts were made to have his books The Last Day of Summer and Radiant Identities classed as child pornography in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Louisiana.

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