Questions & Answers
Why did Garry Winogrand take photographs?
‘To see what the world looked like, photographed.’
Why did “citizens evolve from blurs to solid flesh”?
Because in the long exposures of the older camera, people didn’t stay still long enough to leave a trace on the photograph, so when the technology changed in the camera, people started to appear.
What was/is the “much misunderstood theory”?
Cartier-Bresson’s ‘The Decisive Moment’, other photographers were defined by this theory, many people tried to imitate it and many misunderstood this theory.
Who was the godfather of street photography in the USA?
Garry Winogrand, driven to take photographs of the street, he had an appetite for documenting life.
Who was Paul Martin and what did he do?
In1896, Marin went to the beach, Great Yarmouth, covering his camera with a brown paper bag, the pictures he took show the magic of the beach at work. At the beach you could forget what being ‘Victorian’ was all about.
Who said “When I was growing up photographers were either nerds or pornographers”?
Ed Ruscha, an artist, no redeeming social value to someone who had a camera.
Why does William Eggleston photograph in colour?
His career rests on the photographs he took in the early 1970’s onwards, of Menphas and the surrounding area. His pictures contain the acute detail of a street photographer, but they are brightly coloured make them unreadable. Democratic, at war with the obvious. Colour is more dominate than black and white, it twists the whole content, psychological colour to the viewer.
What is William Eggleston about?
He takes his world with him, he doesn’t consider himself as part of a generation, he has always worked very alone. ‘He’s about photographing life today.’
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