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
I generally deal with something happening.
art book giving
[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.
photography photograph responsible
You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks. In other words, it's responsible for the form.
world language existence
Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.
things-happen
You've got a lot going for you, you see. By just describing well with it, something happens.
world transformation
There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.
Nobody exists in a vacuum.
teaching animal interesting
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.
thinking done attention
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.
seductive
Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
I enjoyed it [commercial work] until I stopped. You could travel and get around. I can't really explain why, I just didn't want to do it anymore.
easy
As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it would have been very easy to just illustrate that idea about the relationships between the press and the event, you know.
gun
I was a hired gun, more or less.
intrigued
Cameras intrigued me.