Quote

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.

Garry Winogrand

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
Photographer
Photojournalist
New York City
New York
Saws
Whichever
Either
Bang
Away
Bangs
Else
Print
Better
Photographer
Something
Happenings
Happening
Photography

More quotes by Garry Winogrand

Image
I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
Garry Winogrand
Image
People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
Garry Winogrand
Image
As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it would have been very easy to just illustrate that idea about the relationships between the press and the event, you know.
Garry Winogrand
Image
[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot there by the Fort Worth Art Museum for a show. I probably shot a total of fourteen days, give or take.
Garry Winogrand
Image
I don't go around looking at my pictures.
Garry Winogrand
Image
Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.
Garry Winogrand
Image
Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
Garry Winogrand
Image
I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.
Garry Winogrand
Image
I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.
Garry Winogrand
Image
Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like street photographer are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
Garry Winogrand
Image
I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.
Garry Winogrand
Image
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
Garry Winogrand
Image
Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
Garry Winogrand
Image
If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.
Garry Winogrand
Image
Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
Garry Winogrand
Image
I was a hired gun, more or less.
Garry Winogrand
Image
If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.
Garry Winogrand
Image
No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
Garry Winogrand
Image
I don't have anything to say in any picture.
Garry Winogrand
Image
I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.
Garry Winogrand