Garry Winogrand Quotes
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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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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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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
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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, 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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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 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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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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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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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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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'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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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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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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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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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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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 have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.
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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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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good