Garry Winogrand Quotes
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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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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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When I’m photographing I see life.
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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
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All things are photographable.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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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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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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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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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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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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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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There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.
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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or casually made, whatever you want to call it. Whatever terms you like. The fact is, when they're talking about snapshots they're talking about the family album picture, which is one of the most precisely made photographs.