I was a hired gun, more or less. Garry Winogrand More Quotes by Garry Winogrand More Quotes From Garry Winogrand Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed. Garry Winogrand photographyphotographerlooks No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something. Garry Winogrand importantphotographyphotographer 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 ticketscamerasworld 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 fourphotographyinspiring 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 techniqueimportantphotography 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 photographyphotographerlooks I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Garry Winogrand photographyphotographerlooks A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space. Garry Winogrand creativityphotographyart 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 headacheinterestingthinking The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed Garry Winogrand photographybeautifulinteresting Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good Garry Winogrand emotionphotographymistake 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 photographknowsbeautiful 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 photographymeanreality I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different. Garry Winogrand interestdifferentphotograph 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 photographyphotographerthinking Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. Garry Winogrand battlephotographyphotographer I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs. Garry Winogrand photographylooksworld The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat. Garry Winogrand neattryingworld 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 photographytwothinking Great photography is always on the edge of failure. Garry Winogrand great-photographyphotographyphotographer
