Jock Sturges: Notes
"...the thematic thread of this volume--understatedly titled Notes, despite its careful cohesion--puts the emphasis on family. From his Polaroids of siblings at play to his multigenerational group portraits shot on 8X10, Sturges's images bask in the warmth and empathy of relatives who love each other." -- Jack Crager --American Photo"Over the past decade, Jock Sturges has produced an incomparable body of work that revels in the beauty of the human form and celebrates the naturist spirit." --HotShoe International"Families, in all their varying shapes and forms, are the subject of Jock Sturges' Notes. Mothers and daughters, and husbands and wives, are captured by the noted photographer, often pictures daringly nude, in moments of insular or mutual reflection, or bathed in golden sunlight." --Harpers & Queen"Jock Sturges loves the way kids inhabit their bodies. At their purest, he says, they are free of shame, lighthearted, their eye contact direct. Physically, they are perfect, both erotic and sexless in their androgyny with an unquestionable air of innocence. The fifty-seven-year-old fine art photographer calls this pre-pubescent age 'quixotic.' And no one captures it with such honesty and brilliance quite like he does." -- Rebecca Klein --Picture Magazine