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
Garry Winogrand quotes about
missing kind
You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.
clearly
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.
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.
interesting world photograph
My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.
photograph
There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
transformation mystery of-context
Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.
successful world photograph
It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
good-friend mad film
I have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the developing. If somebody's going to goof my film, I'd better do it. I don't want to get that mad at anybody else.
people
Tod or Hank Wessel, Bill Dane, Paul McConough, Steve Shore. Robert Adams, for sure. I'm ready to see what they do.There's a lot of people working reasonably intelligently.
trying photographer interest
There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.
art people modern
Museum of Modern Art doesn't have anything to do with what I do. Probably has made some differences in my sales, I wouldn't be surprised. Again, you have to ask other people, because I don't have a measuring device.
teaching struggle interesting
Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
teaching students
The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
interesting beggar
You use the vertical edge as the point of reference, instead of the horizontal edge. I have a picture of a beggar, where there's an arm coming into the frame from the side. And the arm is parallel to the horizontal edge and it makes it work. It's all games, you know. But it keeps it interesting to do, to play.