Garry Winogrand Professions : Photographer Born : January 14, 1928 Died : March 19, 1984 Browse All Authors Top 171 quotes by Garry Winogrand Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed. Garry Winogrand photography photographer looks No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something. Garry Winogrand important photography photographer 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. Garry Winogrand tickets cameras world 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 four photography inspiring 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 technique important photography 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. Garry Winogrand photography photographer looks I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Garry Winogrand photography photographer looks A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space. Garry Winogrand creativity photography art 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. Garry Winogrand headache interesting thinking The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed Garry Winogrand photography beautiful interesting Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good Garry Winogrand emotion photography mistake 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 photograph knows beautiful 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 I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different. Garry Winogrand interest different photograph 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 photographer thinking Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. Garry Winogrand battle photography photographer I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs. Garry Winogrand photography looks world The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat. Garry Winogrand neat trying world 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 two thinking Great photography is always on the edge of failure. Garry Winogrand great-photography photography photographer Similar Authors Inge Morath photographer Bert Stern photographer Brent Stirton photographer Bunny Yeager photographer Burt Glinn photographer Bruno Barbey photographer All Authors
