Garry Winogrand Quotes - Page 2

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• For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Mean, Reality

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• Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.

  Garry Winogrand

  Nice, Want, Term

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• When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."

  Garry Winogrand

  Looks, Care, Photograph

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Would Be, Four

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• 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.

  Garry Winogrand

  Artist, Discipline, Goes On

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

  Garry Winogrand

  Beautiful, Photograph, Knows

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• You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Teacher, Thinking

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• I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.

  Garry Winogrand

  Thinking, Cameras, Looks

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• 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.

  Garry Winogrand

  What If, Photograph, Made

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .

  Garry Winogrand

  Mind, Surviving

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Desire, Looks

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• You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.

  Garry Winogrand

  Looks, Photograph, Made

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• If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Saws, Photographer

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• I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Thinking, Photographer

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• I have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the developing. If somebody's going to goof my film, I'd better do it. I don't want to get that mad at anybody else.

  Garry Winogrand

  Good Friend, Mad, Want

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• What I know bores me.

  Garry Winogrand

  Bores, Knows

  Source: www.zinzin.com

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• I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.

  Garry Winogrand

  Trying

  Source: www.zinzin.com

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• 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.

  Garry Winogrand

  Looks, Way, Photograph

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• 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.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Bangs, Saws

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• It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.

  Garry Winogrand

  Successful, Easy, Photograph

  Source: www.zinzin.com

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• If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.

  Garry Winogrand

  Children, Vacation, Play

  Source: www.zinzin.com

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• All I'm doing is photographing. When I was working on The Animals, I was working on a lot of other things too. I kept going to the zoo because things were going on in certain pictures. It wasn't a project.

  Garry Winogrand

  Zoos, Animal, Projects

  The ASX Interview, www.americansuburbx.com. 1981.

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• People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

  Garry Winogrand

  People, Dumb

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.

  Garry Winogrand

  Dumb, Buttons, Cameras

  Source: www.zinzin.com

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• I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do.

  Garry Winogrand

  Stills

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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