“There's something political about creating a world that you want to exist.” Quote by Justine Kurland
“The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else they are gardeners after the Fall, lost and exposed to both the elements and the lens.” FallLostPerfectFiguresElementsCamerasNakedLandscapeExposedLensesGardenerEden Author:Justine Kurland
“Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush of longing detaches from its object of desire, and my photographic ghosts lead me back to myself, alone.” DesireCasesObjectsAdventurePhotographyLongingGhostLeading MeObjects Of DesireMisadventure Author:Justine Kurland
“There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.” WayKindHomePhotographyPhotographerPhotographGoing Out Author:Justine Kurland
“If I stage things too much and nothing changes in the act of photographing, then I might as well have not taken the picture: If the whole thing already exists in my head, then I haven't learned anything. The tension lies between the staging and the unpredictability.” IfsWellsWholeMightLyingTakenToo MuchStageHavensTensionThings ChangeUnpredictabilityStaging Author:Justine Kurland
“I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs... So actually becoming a runaway was crucial. I had this idea that I'd make my way across the frontier and find my story as it was actually happening in the landscape.” WayIdeasStoriesNew YorkBecomingHappeningsPhotographMy WayLandscapeCaliforniaCrucialFrontiersRunawayIconography Author:Justine Kurland
“We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of a high ideal, which is exactly what my photographs are about.” ArtistParentPoorStruggleGrowing UpGrowingIdealsPhotographDesperate Author:Justine Kurland
“I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.” ThinkingMatterSeemsNo Matter WhatRemainsPostsShocking Author:David LaChapelle
“I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.” IndustryEntertainmentEntertainingProvocativeEntertainment Industry Author:David LaChapelle
“Pictures are an escape. They should be bigger than life. In the same way, celebrities provide an escape from the mundane. They are photographed so we can worship them - so they are worthy of our worship.” WayShouldWorshipBiggerWorthyMundaneBigger Than Life Author:David LaChapelle
“The minute you point a camera at something, you are manipulating the image, because you are cropping out whatever is to the left and right of it. The minute you put a light on someone, you are manipulating the image.” LightLeftMinutesCamerasLeft And Right Author:David LaChapelle