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Doug and Mike Starn - From the Beauty category:
The whole idea of how art's been affecting people for centuries and what beauty can do to people - this is an incredibly rich area of human experience. (Doug and Mike Starn)
Doug and Mike Starn - From the Collaboration category:
Maybe somebody will end up being more the one that does the gluing, but it doesn't make any difference. We both take the pictures, set up the contact sheets. We both discuss the size, the color, the framing, the construction. (Doug and Mike Starn)
Doug and Mike Starn - From the Exploration category:
As artists, it's easy to give up too soon - to avoid exploring a certain theme or subject because it's been done before. But art is a call and response over time. The best art is not created in a vacuum. (Doug and Mike Starn)
Doug and Mike Starn - From the Modernism category:
Modernism is a very intellectual movement, and beauty's been out of fashion in the art world for quite a while - it's seen as corny... We rework the Old Masters because they inspire us. (Doug and Mike Starn)
Doug and Mike Starn - From the Nature category:
Trees are literally a recording of light, growing, through photosynthesis, toward the source. We relate the silhouetted black tree bodies to the black of written information, the black ink on the pages of books through thousands of years of transcribed thought and creation. (Doug and Mike Starn)
Doug and Mike Starn - From the Photography category:
Painting and sculpture have been explored from every conceivable angle, but photography's been locked in a box for decades. (Doug and Mike Starn)
Doug and Mike Starn - From the Photography category:
We're trying to show that photography isn't an image, it's a three-dimensional object. It can have the same kind of growth and limitations or non-limitations as the other arts. It doesn't have to be confined to a craft, or simply the photographer's eye and then the skill of printing. (Doug and Mike Starn)
Doug and Mike Starn - From the Potential category:
We want to show the guts of photography - mainly because we love it so much. Each step in the process has its own beauty and limitless potential. (Doug and Mike Starn)
Doug and Mike Starn - From the Renewal category:
From the time we started taking pictures when we were 13, photography struck us as a stale medium that needed to be broken wide open, and that's part of what our work is about. (Doug and Mike Starn)
Doug and Mike Starn - From the Rules category:
The only way for the creative mind to function is through anarchy. Art can't flourish while bound to the concerns of previous generations. Photography, as a rule, has too many rules. (Doug and Mike Starn)
Doug and Mike Starn - From the Technique category:
Our photography, in the way that we abuse the surface, or at least use the surface - introduce it and not be afraid of it - I think is somewhat modern. We're not trying to make something look beautiful and old at all, we're trying to show that photography is an object, and we can't deny that some of these things look old. (Doug and Mike Starn)
Doug and Mike Starn - From the Vision category:
Vision doesn't work like a camera; the mind is an interpreter of constantly fed information - not just from your eyes, but also from all your sensory inputs, simultaneously. These are your interfaces to the world. Your mind decodes and understands the information based on a lifetime of constructions, memories, desires and learning... it is through all that that we 'see.' (Doug and Mike Starn)
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