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
teaching struggle interesting
Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
teaching
Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
teaching kind photograph
I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
teaching people kind
There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.
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.
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.
photographer
I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
seductive
Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
couple gypsy los-angeles
I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.
kind not-interested
I'm talking about technical goofs. I'm pretty much on top of it. The kind of picture you're referring to would have to be more about the effects of technical things, technical phenomena, and I'm just not interested in that kind of work at all.
transformation photograph
I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.
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.
intrigued
Cameras intrigued me.
things-happen
You've got a lot going for you, you see. By just describing well with it, something happens.