I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant. Garry Winogrand More Quotes by Garry Winogrand More Quotes From Garry Winogrand I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures. Garry Winogrand mechanicsometimesthinking All I'm doing is photographing. When I was working on The Animals, I was working on a lot of other things too. I kept going to the zoo because things were going on in certain pictures. It wasn't a project. Garry Winogrand projectsanimalzoos There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things. Garry Winogrand photograph Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph. Garry Winogrand emotionphotographermistake 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 photographyteacherthinking When I’m photographing I see life. Garry Winogrand There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. Garry Winogrand mysteriousphotographyfacts 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-ifphotographmade In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else. Garry Winogrand fourphotographywould-be I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me. Garry Winogrand photographydesirelooks A photograph can look any way. Garry Winogrand photographylooksway You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print. Garry Winogrand bangssawsphotography You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made. Garry Winogrand photographmadelooks Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface. Garry Winogrand narrativelightphotography 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 divorcedisciplinephotography Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do. Garry Winogrand termnicewant If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up. Garry Winogrand sawsphotographyphotographer The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know. Garry Winogrand buttonscamerasdumb As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it would have been very easy to just illustrate that idea about the relationships between the press and the event, you know. Garry Winogrand eventseasyideas There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply. Garry Winogrand designlooksway
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