Garry Winogrand Quotes About Photography
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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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There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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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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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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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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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
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The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that could be happening, to some degree, with photography, too. It doesn't cost as much to do it, either.
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The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.
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There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.
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I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.
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I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.
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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
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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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The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed
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I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.
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A photograph can look any way.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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My only interest in photographing is photography.
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A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
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You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks. In other words, it's responsible for the form.
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If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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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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All things are photographable.
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