All GARRY WINOGRAND Quotes about “Photography”

“No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.”
“Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.”
“If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.”
“Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good”
“Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.”
“Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.”
“Great photography is always on the edge of failure.”
“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.”
“There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.”
“I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.”
“Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.”
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.”
“You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.”
“The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed”
“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.”
“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.”
“The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?”
“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.”
“I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.”
“A photograph can look any way.”
“All things are photographable.”
“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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