Jock Sturges Quotes

• It’s really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

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• It’s no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

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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, s*xual 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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• If it gets to the Supreme Court, I’ll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.

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• I’ve had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don’t send any messages in doing so.

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• I’m the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That’s no errand for me.

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• I’m guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it’s a naivete that I really don’t want to abandon, not even now.

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• I’m an artist that’s attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

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• I’d rather get back to making art than talk about it.

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• I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.

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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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• I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

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• I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

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• I don’t photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

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• I didn’t think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. 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.

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• I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

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• I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.

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• 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.

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• Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

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Jock Sturges (47)

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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