Garry Winogrand, 1981
How did she end up hosting this show? I’ve been watching some of these interviews in this interesting series and she’s straight up crazy. I love how obvious it is that he thinks she’s a huge idiot.
“How do you respond to the now tiresome phrase, snapshot aesthetic?”
“That’s another stupidity. You know the people who use the term, they’re referring to photographs where they believe that they’re loosely organized — or whatever you wanna call it, whatever terms you like — or casually made. Now the fact is that very snapshot that they’re talking about — they’re talking about the family snapshot picture, which is one of the most precisely made pictures — they don’t even know the meaning of the term they’re using. It’s an extremely precisely made photograph: y’know, everyone’s fifteen feet away, and they’re smiling, and the sun is over their shoulder — that’s when the picture is taken. It’s one of the most carefully made photographs that ever happens. They’re just dumb. They misunderstand the idea.”
Ooh, he’s so good!