Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand
Garry Winograndwas a street photographer from the Bronx, New York, known for his portrayal of American life, and its social issues, in the mid-20th century. Though he photographed in Los Angeles and elsewhere, Winogrand was essentially a New York photographer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth14 January 1928
CountryUnited States of America
teaching animal interesting
Well, it was strange, because the phone rang and a teaching job turned up that sounded interesting. And I always did my own work. The Animals and a lot of Public Relations were done while I was doing commercial work.
photography art problem
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.
photograph
There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
photograph
A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.
photography interest
My only interest in photographing is photography.
photography photograph
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.
film
I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
photography
I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.
photography photograph responsible
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.
photography thinking worry
There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.
wall students now-and-then
Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question.
design photograph responsible
What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.
photography four facts
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
photography looks
Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.