Jock Sturges
Jock Sturges
Jock Sturgesis an American photographer, best known for his images of nude adolescents and their families...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
CountryUnited States of America
arms pants looks
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.
shame phenomenon
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
skills concerned transient
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
country art museums
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.
government irony ends
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
thinking people body
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.
thinking done best-picture
Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.
believe erotic facts
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.
ifs-and people messages
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.
desire lasts errands
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
years doubt informed-consent
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.
artist way seeing
I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.
long photograph wells
I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
children growing-up real
I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical and psychological change. If I'm able to make pictures of children that are so real, as you follow the children over the years in any given book, and in subsequent books they get older and older and grow up, perhaps there might be something cautionary in that visual example. 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.