Garry Winogrand Quotes
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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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Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.
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I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
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If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.
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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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[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot there by the Fort Worth Art Museum for a show. I probably shot a total of fourteen days, give or take.
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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 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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Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the way puns function.
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I have to photograph where I am.
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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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A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.
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I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.
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I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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You use the vertical edge as the point of reference, instead of the horizontal edge. I have a picture of a beggar, where there's an arm coming into the frame from the side. And the arm is parallel to the horizontal edge and it makes it work. It's all games, you know. But it keeps it interesting to do, to play.
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When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting. I don't think I always got it straight.
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The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed
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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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Everybody's entitled to their own experience.
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Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.
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I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.
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A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.