Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand
Garry Winograndwas a street photographer from the Bronx, New York, known for his portrayal of American life, and its social issues, in the mid-20th century. Though he photographed in Los Angeles and elsewhere, Winogrand was essentially a New York photographer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth14 January 1928
CountryUnited States of America
Garry Winogrand quotes about
mean intelligent attention
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.
ifs
If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.
thinking
Certainly, you know, you can always learn from some - from somebody else's - from some intelligence. I think. I hope.
light narrative surface
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
nice want term
Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.
photograph interest
Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing; I'm not changing it.
photography divorce interesting
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.
mistake emotion photographer
Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.
looks photograph made
You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
What I know bores me.
saws bangs print
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.
photography looks way
A photograph can look any way.
photography facts mysterious
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
concerned
When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.