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

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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how... by Garry Winogrand

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

Garry Winogrand

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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something. by Garry Winogrand

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Garry Winogrand

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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

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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

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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

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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

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I photograph to find out what something will look like photograph... by Garry Winogrand

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Garry Winogrand

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A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

Garry Winogrand

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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

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The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than... by Garry Winogrand

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

Garry Winogrand

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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

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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

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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

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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different... by Garry Winogrand

I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

Garry Winogrand

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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

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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. by Garry Winogrand

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

Garry Winogrand

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I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs. by Garry Winogrand

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

Garry Winogrand

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The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat. by Garry Winogrand

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

Garry Winogrand

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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

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Great photography is always on the edge of failure. by Garry Winogrand

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

Garry Winogrand

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