Top 37 Garry Winogrand Quotes

#1. There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

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#2. I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

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#3. The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

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#4. You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else
and whichever is better you print.

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#5. Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

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

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#7. No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

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#8. 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.

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#9. You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

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#10. 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.

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#11. All things are photographable.

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#12. 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.

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#13. I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

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#14. I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

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#15. Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

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#16. The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

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#17. I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability ... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.

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#18. Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.

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#19. Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

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#20. A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

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#21. Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

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#22. The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

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#23. 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.

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#24. Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

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#25. If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

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#26. There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

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#27. The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?

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#28. When I'm photographing I see life.

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

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#30. There is no special way a photograph should look.

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#31. There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

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#32. Sometimes I feel like ... the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It's a big show for me, as if it wouldn't happen if I wasn't there with a camera.

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#33. In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.

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#34. I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

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#35. You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

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#36. Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

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#37. The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you've got to bounce off better work. It's matter of working.

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