Collections Quote by Garry Winogrand

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

— Garry Winogrand

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

— Robert Heinecken

The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.

— Wright Morris

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

— Allan Sekula

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

Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context…

— John Paul Caponigro

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As…

— Elizabeth Edwards

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

— Neil Postman

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

— Garry Winogrand

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.

— Nelson Shanks