Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you begin to speculate, and that is what I want.
As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good picture is open to many individual (subjective) associations. I am usually pleased when a viewer finds interpretations that I myself had not been aware of.
I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am not interested in trying desperately to make Art but I am interested in relating to the marvelous extravagance of Life.
To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.
![Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you begin to speculate, and that is what I want.](http://cdn.quoteddaily.com/images/john-gutmann/content-to-me-is-very-important-but-i-like-it-when-the-photograph-is-also-enigmatic-if-you-dont-know.jpg)
