187 Quotes by Garry Winogrand

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera ‘saw’ a piece of time and space.

I don’t know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

You’re talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

The only thing that’s difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?

You’ve got to deal with how photographs look, what’s there, not how they’re made.

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.