Jock Sturges (/ˈstɜːrdʒɪs/; born 1947) is an American photographer, best known for his images of nude adolescents and their families.
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
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.
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.
I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.
There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.
In fact, I don’t believe I’m guilty of any crimes, but I’ve always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual, and psychological change, and there’s an erotic aspect to that.
They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.
It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.
Physical beauty is such a strange thing.
I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
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.
There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it.
Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.
We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.
I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.