Photography Quotes by Garry Winogrand

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

— Garry Winogrand

I don't go around looking at my pictures.

— Garry Winogrand

I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

— Garry Winogrand

My only interest in photographing is photography.

— Garry Winogrand

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

— Garry Winogrand

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

— Garry Winogrand

When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."

— Garry Winogrand

When I’m photographing I see life.

— Garry Winogrand

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

— Garry Winogrand

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

— Garry Winogrand

I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could…

— Garry Winogrand

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

— Garry Winogrand

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

— Garry Winogrand

I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

— Garry Winogrand

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

— Garry Winogrand

It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

— Garry Winogrand

I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You…

— Garry Winogrand

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what…

— Garry Winogrand

I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the…

— Garry Winogrand

I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about…

— Garry Winogrand

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

[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I…

— Garry Winogrand

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

— Garry Winogrand

I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.

— Garry Winogrand

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

I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it…

— Garry Winogrand

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…

— Garry Winogrand

There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want…

— Garry Winogrand

There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me…

— Garry Winogrand

I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up.…

— Garry Winogrand

A photograph can look any way.

— Garry Winogrand

There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

— Garry Winogrand

If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.

— Garry Winogrand

I have to photograph where I am.

— Garry Winogrand

I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.

— Garry Winogrand

There is no special way a photograph should look.

— Garry Winogrand

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

— Garry Winogrand

Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

— Garry Winogrand

A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

— Garry Winogrand

You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.

— Garry Winogrand