Garry Winogrand Quotes
- If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
- Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
- Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
- Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
- The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed
- I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
- 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. I…
- You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all…
- For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to…
- There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
- A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
- I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe.…
- There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
- All things are photographable.
- Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
- Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
- The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
- Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.
- Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
- There is no special way a photograph should look.