Garry Winogrand Quotes
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I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.
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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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All things are photographable.
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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
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The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.
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Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.
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There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.
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There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.
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Well, it was strange, because the phone rang and a teaching job turned up that sounded interesting. And I always did my own work. The Animals and a lot of Public Relations were done while I was doing commercial work.
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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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If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.
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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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Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.
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You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.
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Museum of Modern Art doesn't have anything to do with what I do. Probably has made some differences in my sales, I wouldn't be surprised. Again, you have to ask other people, because I don't have a measuring device.
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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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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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I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.
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At times people in the press were also useful to me.