I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or casually made, whatever you want to call it. Whatever terms you like. The fact is, when they're talking about snapshots they're talking about the family album picture, which is one of the most precisely made photographs.
Garry WinograndPhotography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
Garry WinograndI 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 WinograndLos Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.
Garry WinograndAside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.
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