Garry Winogrand Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

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

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Important, Photographer

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

  Garry Winogrand

  Inspiring, Photography, Four

• 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

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

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Mistake, Emotion

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

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Looks, Photographer

• Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Battle, Photographer

• Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Photographer, Great Photography

• 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

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

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Art, Creativity

• 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.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Thinking, Two

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

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Facts, Mysterious

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

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Looks, Photographer

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

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Looks, World

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

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Light, Narrative

• 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.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Important, Technique

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

  Garry Winogrand

  Beautiful, Photography, Interesting

• 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

• A photograph can look any way.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Looks, Way

• 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

• I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Divorce, Discipline

• The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Done, Photographer

• There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, People, Trying

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

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Desire, Looks

• There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Photographer, Photograph

• All things are photographable.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, All Things

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