You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture. 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 trying interesting thinking [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 museums book art 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 photograph world interesting I don't have anything to say in any picture. Garry Winogrand My only interest in photographing is photography. Garry Winogrand interest photography 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 kind problem interesting 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 problem matter mean I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline. Garry Winogrand discipline exercise two Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind . Garry Winogrand surviving mind Certainly, you know, you can always learn from some - from somebody else's - from some intelligence. I think. I hope. Garry Winogrand knows thinking 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 shows want book What I know bores me. Garry Winogrand bores knows 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 lucky giving ideas 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 games play looks 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 stills photograph photography 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 buttons hate laughing It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore. Garry Winogrand photograph successful world I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short. Garry Winogrand life-is-too-short photographer fun
