A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.
Garry WinograndAll I'm doing is photographing. When I was working on The Animals, I was working on a lot of other things too. I kept going to the zoo because things were going on in certain pictures. It wasn't a project.
Garry WinograndIf you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.
Garry Winogrand