“It would have been possible to structure my photographs in such a way that no indicators of the present were discernible. However, I wanted to incorporate into the project as a whole the jostling of time-frames I would feel as I set up my tripod on various rocky promontories.” WayFeelsHas BeensWholeWantedProjectsStructurePhotographerPhotographVariousIndicatorsTripods Author:John Pfahl
“I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists) looked the way they did, Archetypes imprinted on my mind started me on a search.” WayMindArtistCertainPhotographerPhotographLandscapeArchetypeDepiction Book:Permutations on the picturesque Source: Permutations on the picturesque
“While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view.” ThinkingRoomsViewsForeverWindowCamerasPhotographerPhotograph Author:John Pfahl
“As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.” StatesProblemImpossibleSolutionsPhotographerPhotograph Author:John Pfahl
“I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that work on a more mysterious level, that approach the truth by a more circuitous route.” WantLevelsCuttingApproachPhotographerPhotographMysteriousProvokingRoutesAmbiguity Author:John Pfahl
