The Genius of Photography, Part 4

1.Why did Garry Winogrand take photographs?
 To see what the world looked like photographed.

2.Why did “citizens evolve from blurs to solid flesh”?
At first, photographers could not capture movement in street photography because of the long exposure times. Gradually the technology improved and the previous blurs became solid flesh.

3.What was/is the “much misunderstood theory”?
The much misunderstood theory comes from Henri Carter Bressons theory of 'the decisive moment'.

4.Who was the godfather of street photography in the USA?
 Gary Winogand was somewhat a 'pack leader' for street photographers. People were known to respond to his energy in which gave him revolutionary images.

5.Who was Paul Martin and what did he do?
Paul Martin was an British photographer. In 1896 in Great Yarmouth, he disguised a camera as a brown paper parcel. He captured images showing the other side of Victorian lifestyle, in that somehow the beach was a place they could forget that they were Victorian.

6.Who said “When I was growing up photographers were either nerds or pornographers”?
Edward Ruscha claimed that when he was growing up, photographers were either nerds or poronographers. People with cameras had no social value.

7.Why does William Eggleston photograph in colour?
Eggleston photographed in colour because he felt it gave a different perspective and content to his work.

8.What is William Eggleston about?
Eggleston is a man of few words, quoting that his work was 'at war with th obvious'. His images are 'democratic', and his use of bold, bright colour give a completely different structure to many other photographers work.