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 More Quotes by Garry Winogrand More Quotes From Garry Winogrand I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about. Garry Winogrand tryinginterestingthinking [Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot there by the Fort Worth Art Museum for a show. I probably shot a total of fourteen days, give or take. Garry Winogrand museumsbookart My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with. Garry Winogrand photographworldinteresting I don't have anything to say in any picture. Garry Winogrand My only interest in photographing is photography. Garry Winogrand interestphotography I have to photograph where I am. Garry Winogrand photograph I don't go around looking at my pictures. Garry Winogrand For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form. Garry Winogrand kindprobleminteresting In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic. Garry Winogrand problemmattermean I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline. Garry Winogrand disciplineexercisetwo Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind . Garry Winogrand survivingmind Certainly, you know, you can always learn from some - from somebody else's - from some intelligence. I think. I hope. Garry Winogrand knowsthinking It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day. Garry Winogrand showswantbook What I know bores me. Garry Winogrand boresknows You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches. Garry Winogrand luckygivingideas In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games. Garry Winogrand gamesplaylooks If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about. Garry Winogrand stillsphotographphotography I'm a good craftsman and I can have this particular intention: let's say, I want a photograph that's going to push a certain button in an audience, to make them laugh or love, feel warm or hate or what - I know how to do this. Garry Winogrand buttonshatelaughing It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore. Garry Winogrand photographsuccessfulworld I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short. Garry Winogrand life-is-too-shortphotographerfun
