1. Why did Garry Winogrand take photographs?
He liked to take photographs which he knew would make both the most liberal and educated, and the most politically conservative people kind of upset. He wanted to capture everything.
2. Why did "citizens evolve from blurs to solid flesh"?
At the beginning of the photographic history the exposure time was too long to capture the people on street photos, every town was a ghost town. But with the technology catching up, the exposure time got faster and the people appeared on the photos.
3. What was/is the "much misunderstood theory"?
It comes from Henri Cartier-Bresson's theory of the decisive moment.
4. Who was the godfather of street photography in the USA?
Garry Winogrand who became a kind of a 'pack leader' for a generation of hungry, young street photographers in the 1960s.
5. Who was Paul Martin and what did he do?
A British photographer who in 1896 took pictures in Great Yarmouth with a camera disguised as a brown paper parcel. He took photographs on the beach, his work shows that on the beach people could forget what being Victorian meant.
6. Who said "When I was growing up photographers were either nerds or pornographers"?
Ed Ruscha who in the 1960s produced a series of books which were milestones in photography and pop art. He took pictures of thing rather than people.
7. Why does William Eggleston photograph in colour?
Colour twists the content, it captures the real world better.
8. What is William Eggleston about?
It is hard to get words out of him but in an interview he said he is about photographing life today.
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