Nobody exists in a vacuum. Garry Winogrand More Quotes by Garry Winogrand More Quotes From Garry Winogrand All things are photographable. Garry Winogrand photographyall-things The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough? Garry Winogrand photographyphotographerdone You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture. Garry Winogrand wanttalking There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work. Garry Winogrand photographytryingpeople I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be. Garry Winogrand know-howphotographyknows I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant. Garry Winogrand irrelevantcamerasthinking I'm shocked that I can live pretty well, or reasonably, or make a certain amount of my living, anyway, off of prints. I guess it's nuts. I don't believe in it. I never anticipated it; I still don't believe it. Garry Winogrand certainnutsbelieve There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it. Garry Winogrand photographyworrythinking I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side. Garry Winogrand mattersidesthinking There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially. Garry Winogrand ambitiousmasterspeople [Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that could be happening, to some degree, with photography, too. It doesn't cost as much to do it, either. Garry Winogrand degreesphotographythinking I had an agent. When [Edward] Steichen was doing "The Family of Man", I went up to the office one day. I think Wayne Miller, who assisted Steichen with "The Family of Man," was up there and pulled out a bunch of pictures. So I got a message: "Take these pictures, call Steichen, make an appointment and take these pictures up there." And that's how I met him. Garry Winogrand officementhinking I have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the developing. If somebody's going to goof my film, I'd better do it. I don't want to get that mad at anybody else. Garry Winogrand good-friendmadwant I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up. Garry Winogrand my-ownfilm There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all. Garry Winogrand photographercitiestrying Museum of Modern Art doesn't have anything to do with what I do. Probably has made some differences in my sales, I wouldn't be surprised. Again, you have to ask other people, because I don't have a measuring device. Garry Winogrand differencesmuseumsart You've got a lot going for you, you see. By just describing well with it, something happens. Garry Winogrand describingwellshappens You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing. Garry Winogrand missingstufflooks There've been times it's been just impossible to find a negative or whatever. But I'm basically just a one man operation, and so things get messed up. I don't have a filing system that's worth very much. Garry Winogrand impossiblemennegative It was interesting; it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a job, I think I'd have to get paid extra. Garry Winogrand jobsinterestingthinking
