I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why. Garry Winogrand More Quotes by Garry Winogrand More Quotes From Garry Winogrand I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it. Garry Winogrand stillsphotographer 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 imaginetalkingway I felt that from my end, I should deal with the thing itself, which is the event. I pretty much functioned like the media itself. Garry Winogrand eventsmediaends People are going to have a good time, you know. One can go have a good time at these big openings in museums. And people go to have a good time. But the thing has another purpose.In the case of museums, it's always got to do with money, people who donate and things like that. And I believe a certain kind of interest has to be demonstrated. Garry Winogrand museumsbelievepeople The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it. Garry Winogrand hypeevilmuseums Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else. Garry Winogrand darkroomseductivecameras There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me how to use the stuff. That's all. I haven't done anything else since then, It was as simple as that. I fell into the business. Garry Winogrand camerassimpleuse People are just dumb. They misunderstand. Garry Winogrand dumbpeople I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or casually made, whatever you want to call it. Whatever terms you like. The fact is, when they're talking about snapshots they're talking about the family album picture, which is one of the most precisely made photographs. Garry Winogrand talkingbelievepeople Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things. Garry Winogrand blackrightswar I enjoyed it [commercial work] until I stopped. You could travel and get around. I can't really explain why, I just didn't want to do it anymore. Garry Winogrand enjoyedi-canwant If I ever hear "Power to the people" again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, "All we are saying is give peace a chance." I couldn't believe it. I thought it was terrible; I hated that song. They used to bring out the Pete Seeger wind-up toy to sing it. Tiresome. Garry Winogrand songwindbelieve At times people in the press were also useful to me. Garry Winogrand pressespeople I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention. Garry Winogrand kingsattentionthinking Everybody's entitled to their own experience. Garry Winogrand entitled I have no expectations. None at all. Garry Winogrand expectations Well, it was strange, because the phone rang and a teaching job turned up that sounded interesting. And I always did my own work. The Animals and a lot of Public Relations were done while I was doing commercial work. Garry Winogrand teachinganimaljobs Cameras intrigued me. Garry Winogrand intriguedcameras When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how." Garry Winogrand carephotographlooks Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way. Garry Winogrand animalway
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