Garry Winogrand Quotes
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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Cameras intrigued me.
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Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
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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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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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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 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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I felt that from my end, I should deal with the thing itself, which is the event. I pretty much functioned like the media itself.
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All things are photographable.
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You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
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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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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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When I’m photographing I see life.
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The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.
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Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.
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When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.
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A photograph can look any way.
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I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about.
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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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I'm talking about technical goofs. I'm pretty much on top of it. The kind of picture you're referring to would have to be more about the effects of technical things, technical phenomena, and I'm just not interested in that kind of work at all.
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I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.
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If I ever hear "Power to the people" again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, "All we are saying is give peace a chance." I couldn't believe it. I thought it was terrible; I hated that song. They used to bring out the Pete Seeger wind-up toy to sing it. Tiresome.
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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.