I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed, — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know. — 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
Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good — 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
It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why. — 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
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
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
It was interesting; it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
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… — 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
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
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
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 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
If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take. — 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
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… — 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 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
I have boxes of pictures that nothing is ever going to happen to. Even Public Relations. I mean, I was going to… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed — 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 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 photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way… — 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
[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
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