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
teaching struggle interesting
Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
teaching students
The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
teaching
Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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.
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.
clearly
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.
photography
I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.
people dumb
People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
thinking irrelevant
I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.
care photograph
When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."
mean long public-relations
I have boxes of pictures that nothing is ever going to happen to. Even Public Relations. I mean, I was going to events long before, and I still am.
book thinking dramatic
If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.
interesting world photograph
My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.