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" For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality - the changing of the seasons - that's what I deeply loved. "

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" Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city. "

" All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society. "

" The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily. "

" Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged. "

" When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work. "

" With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do we know about the author and their background? What do I know about the subject?' "

" Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. "

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" I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau. "

" You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. "

" I loved the High Line when it was just mine, when I was the only person up there, and I had a private park in New York City. I had to make an appointment to see it... I'd walk around. I was all alone. "

" No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer. "

" A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs. "

" The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype. "