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
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.
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.
views use toys
I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.
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.
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.
people photograph transactions
The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.
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.
beautiful thinking people
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.
two people information
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
alive persons
There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.
animal doe mammals
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.
kids artist checks
The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.
art get-back
I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.