Garry Winogrand Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.”
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“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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“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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“You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.”
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“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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“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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“If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.”
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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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“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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“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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“Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good”
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“You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.”
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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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“If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.”
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“Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.”
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“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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“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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“Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.”
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“Great photography is always on the edge of failure.”
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“I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.”
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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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“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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“There is no special way a photograph should look.”
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“When I’m photographing I see life.”
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“There are no photographs while I'm reloading .”
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“The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.”
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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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“The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?”
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