2010, from Autobiography, in my iPad application Horvatland
Photographing a piece of sculpture is not like photographing a painting. This might seem obvious, but it bears repetition. A reproduction of a painting is the copy of a surface. Its quality depends more on the technique than on the photographer: the closer it is to the original, the better. Corollary: all good reproductions of the same painting are similar. The photograph of a sculpture is a projection of a three-dimensional solid onto a two-dimensional plane, or rather: one of an infinite number of possible projections. The photographer chooses the angle, the light and the focal length that allow him to show certain aspects of the work – but by no means all. Corollary: all the good photographs of the same sculpture are not necessarily alike.