Photograph Quotes - Page 19

• 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, Made, Said

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• Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs.

  Garry Winogrand

  Talking, Way, Imagine

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• 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.

  Garry Winogrand

  Teaching, Looks, Use

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

  Garry Winogrand

  Looks, Care

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• I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.

  Garry Winogrand

  Interesting, Trying, Looks

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• I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.

  Garry Winogrand

  Thinking, Matter, Sides

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• Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

  Garry Winogrand

  Struggle, Teaching, Interesting

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• There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

  Garry Winogrand

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• I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.

  Garry Winogrand

  Transformation, Said

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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, Interest

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• I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.

  Garry Winogrand

  Pyramids, Saws, Different

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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

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• [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.

  Garry Winogrand

  Art, Book, Museums

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• 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.

  Garry Winogrand

  Interesting, World, Intention

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• 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.

  Garry Winogrand

  Book, Thinking, Looks

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• I have to photograph where I am.

  Garry Winogrand

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• For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.

  Garry Winogrand

  Interesting, Kind, Problem

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• If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.

  Garry Winogrand

  Running, Real, Monkeys

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• 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.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Numbers, Peculiar

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• What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

  Garry Winogrand

  Design, Looks, Use

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• There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

  Garry Winogrand

  Design, Looks, Way

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• A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

  Garry Winogrand

  Looks, Depends

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• Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.

  Garry Winogrand

  Unique, Ideas, Cameras

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• If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Stills, Ifs

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• In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games.

  Garry Winogrand

  Games, Play, Looks

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