Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is.

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“There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described” - Garry Winogrand


“There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described

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.”



“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 a matter of working.”


“How do I say it? The way I would put it is that 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.”


“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.”


“Great photography is always on the edge of failure.”


“Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.”


“Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.”


“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.”


all quotes by Garry Winogrand


http://photography.about.com/od/famousphotogquotes/a/QuotesbyGarryWinogrand.htm
http://erickimphotography.com/blog/2012/08/20/10-things-garry-winogrand-can-teach-you-about-street-photography