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
american-photographer angles avoid certain evidence original people shoot
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.
taken photograph misinterpretation
There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
people photograph transactions
The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.
photograph harm
But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
thinking body photograph
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
long photograph wells
I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
art photographer fine
It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.
taken people photograph
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.
two people photograph
I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
views use toys
I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.
media world shrinking
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.
mother children pregnancy
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.
ambition interesting people
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
practice consumption one-for-me
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.