Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
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 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
Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that… — 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 said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those… — 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
A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
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… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know… — 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 photograph to find out what something will look like photographed, — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image