Photo Quotes ArchiveQuotes by Garry Winogrand (15 quotes)
"Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts."
"A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space."
"Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed."
"I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs."
"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. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both."
"There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described."
"All things are photographable."
"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 have no preconceptions."
"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 you have to do
afterwards is press the shutter."
Source: Garza, O.C. "Class Time with Garry Winogrand", Page 6.
Photography > Photographer Quote #331
"Every photograph is a battle of form versus content."
Source: Garza, O.C. "Class Time with Garry Winogrand", Page 6.
Photography > General Quote #332
"Great photography is always on the edge of failure."
Source: Garza, O.C. "Class Time with Garry Winogrand", Page 9.
Photography > General Quote #333
"Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the picture as judgment that the photograph is good."
Source: Garza, O.C. "Class Time with Garry Winogrand", Page 9.
Photography > Photographer Quote #334
"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 someone else, so much the better."
"There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
[Response to how he felt about missing photographs while he reloaded his camera with film.]"
"The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about."
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