Garry Winogrand Quotes
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I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
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You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.
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I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.
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I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.
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I'm shocked that I can live pretty well, or reasonably, or make a certain amount of my living, anyway, off of prints. I guess it's nuts. I don't believe in it. I never anticipated it; I still don't believe it.
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If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
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When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.
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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.
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People are going to have a good time, you know. One can go have a good time at these big openings in museums. And people go to have a good time. But the thing has another purpose.In the case of museums, it's always got to do with money, people who donate and things like that. And I believe a certain kind of interest has to be demonstrated.
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I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.
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The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
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Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.
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Everybody's entitled to their own experience.
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You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.
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I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up. It's still, in a sense, magic to me. It's a funny thing, you know. I've got two kids, and when they were very young, they used to come in the darkroom and I thought they'd be astounded by that. Nothing. When they got a little older, then they got astounded by it.