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
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.
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.
thinking sensual degrees
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.
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.
beach thinking people
I'll go to do a shoot, I'll spend five or six hours at the beach with people, and when people think I'm all out of film, then they really relax and I get my good pictures.
beautiful thinking different
Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.
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.