I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it. Garry Winogrand More Quotes by Garry Winogrand More Quotes From Garry Winogrand I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties. Garry Winogrand enjoyfuninteresting A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs. Garry Winogrand upsetlaughingthinking Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it. Garry Winogrand existencelanguageworld There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising. Garry Winogrand kindteachingpeople I was a hired gun, more or less. Garry Winogrand gun I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do. Garry Winogrand stills I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made. Garry Winogrand involvedmadethinking I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me. Garry Winogrand usemadeinteresting Tod or Hank Wessel, Bill Dane, Paul McConough, Steve Shore. Robert Adams, for sure. I'm ready to see what they do.There's a lot of people working reasonably intelligently. Garry Winogrand shorebillspeople Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use is "charming." Something just happened. It's automatic, just operating a camera intelligently. Garry Winogrand camerasalbumsthinking There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created. Garry Winogrand transformationfourworld 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 sawsdifferentpyramids 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 photographlooksway Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question. Garry Winogrand wallnow-and-thenstudents You use the vertical edge as the point of reference, instead of the horizontal edge. I have a picture of a beggar, where there's an arm coming into the frame from the side. And the arm is parallel to the horizontal edge and it makes it work. It's all games, you know. But it keeps it interesting to do, to play. Garry Winogrand gamesplayinteresting I have no idea what's going to happen. Who knows - if they can't afford to buy a boat, maybe they buy a print. Who knows what happens with their buck? Garry Winogrand boatbucksideas It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not. Garry Winogrand responsibleenergyinteresting I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers. Garry Winogrand differentpeoplethinking 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 teachinguselooks Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating. Garry Winogrand transformationfactsway
