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
couple gypsy los-angeles
I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.
long los-angeles reason
Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.
photography interest
My only interest in photographing is photography.
thinking kind all-kinds
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.
transformation photograph
I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.
different photograph interest
I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
different kind photograph
I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.
artist discipline world
Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.
photography thinking worry
There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.
teaching people kind
There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.
teaching kind photograph
I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
thinking
I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
imagine photograph discussion
Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs.
what-if photograph prove
What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.