[Leica] photo quotes

[h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)]

Yeah, I've seen several different versions of the same idea too. I don't 
think it was something that he said once and then got garbled, but rather 
that it was an idea that he expressed differently at different times.

Also, according to Szarkowski, the number of frames he left that he had not 
even looked at was definitely above 300,000, and possibly more than 400,000, 
not 60,000. I doubt I'll shoot anywhere near that in my life. I'm also 
intrigued by the fact that, even in normal times (as opposed to near the end 
when he fell so far behind) Winogrand let his images set a year before 
looking at them. He wanted to be as far removed as possible from the 
feelings he had when actually shooting when making his choices of images. 

"Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the picture as 
judgment that the photograph is good."

I wish I had some mechanism that would allow me to be as distanced and 
objective when editing.



----- Original Message ----
From: Phil Swango <pswango at att.net>
To: LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Fri, October 23, 2009 5:43:33 PM
Subject: [Leica] photo quotes

I had seen the Winogrand quote before, but was told that the original was:
"I have a burning desire to see what things look like when photographed *by
me*.  I looked it up, and apparently there are several versions floating
around.  My favorite was "Photography is not about the thing photographed.
It is about how that thing looks photographed."  Some other quotes of his
are here:

http://www.photoquotes.com/ShowQuotes.aspx?id=22&name=Winogrand,Garry
<http://www.photoquotes.com/ShowQuotes.aspx?id=22&name=Winogrand,Garry>

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Phil Swango
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505-262-4085

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