People are just dumb. They misunderstand. Garry Winogrand More Quotes by Garry Winogrand More Quotes From Garry Winogrand When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures. Garry Winogrand new-yorkzooschildren I don't know. I don't go around looking at my pictures. I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures. When the time comes, for whatever reason, I get involved in editing and getting some prints made and stuff. There are things that interest me. But I don't really mull over them a lot. Garry Winogrand editingstuffthinking It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy. Garry Winogrand photographsuccessfuleasy I'm talking about technical goofs. I'm pretty much on top of it. The kind of picture you're referring to would have to be more about the effects of technical things, technical phenomena, and I'm just not interested in that kind of work at all. Garry Winogrand not-interestedkindtalking There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference. Garry Winogrand horizontalarbitraryideas I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera. Garry Winogrand cameraslooksthinking At times I'd much rather talk about other work. Garry Winogrand I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is. Garry Winogrand transformationphotographsaid If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think. Garry Winogrand booklooksthinking The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about. Garry Winogrand stillsphotographyphotographer Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke. Garry Winogrand termearningmean Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me. Garry Winogrand relateteaching Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is. Garry Winogrand disciplineartistgoes-on There is no special way a photograph should look. Garry Winogrand photographyspeciallooks Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see. Garry Winogrand teachingstruggleinteresting If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there. Garry Winogrand ifs What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use. Garry Winogrand designuselooks The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working. Garry Winogrand intelligentattentionmean There are no photographs while I'm reloading . Garry Winogrand photographphotographyphotographer The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions. Garry Winogrand studentsteachingclass
