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
kids magic solutions
I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up. It's still, in a sense, magic to me. It's a funny thing, you know. I've got two kids, and when they were very young, they used to come in the darkroom and I thought they'd be astounded by that. Nothing. When they got a little older, then they got astounded by it.
photography art problem
The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.
unique problem photograph
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.
dumb care
The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.
photography photograph
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.
language photograph
In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games.
photograph
I have to photograph where I am.
I don't go around looking at my pictures.
kind not-interested
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.
interesting interest something-interesting
I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me.
film
I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
thinking sometimes mechanic
I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
thinking interesting trying
I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about.
At times I'd much rather talk about other work.