The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer"… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough? — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed, — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share
It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share
I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start,… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share
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… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share
When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share
There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share
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.… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share
I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share
I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share
People are going to have a good time, you know. One can go have a good time at these big openings in museums. And… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share
