Garry Winogrand Quotes

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• I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Looks, Photographer

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• No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

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  Photography, Important, Photographer

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• Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

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  Inspiring, Photography, Four

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• Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

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  Photography, Looks, Photographer

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• The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

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  Trying, World, Neat

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• You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

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  Photography, Important, Technique

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• Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

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  Cameras, World, Tickets

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• I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

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  Photography, Looks, Photographer

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• The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

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  Beautiful, Photography, Interesting

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• Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

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  Photography, Photographer, Great Photography

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• A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

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  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• When I’m photographing I see life.

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  "Garry Winogrand: the restless genius who gave street photography attitude" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2014.

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• All things are photographable.

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  Photography, All Things

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• Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

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  Photography, Light, Narrative

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• I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

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  Photography, Looks, World

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• There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.

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  World, Four, Transformation

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• Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

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  Photography, Battle, Photographer

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• There is no special way a photograph should look.

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  Photography, Special, Looks

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• I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.

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  Photography, Thinking, Two

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• There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

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  Photography, Facts, Mysterious

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• Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

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  Photography, Mistake, Emotion

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• If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.

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  Ifs

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• I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

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  Different, Photograph, Interest

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• When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting. I don't think I always got it straight.

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  Thinking, Interesting, Headache

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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.

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  Artist, Discipline, Goes On

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