Winogrand
“Garry Winogrand was born in New York in 1928 and grew up in the then predominantly Jewish working-class area of the Bronx, where his father was a leather worker.”
Now where exactly was he born? In one interview he says that he grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. At any rate - it explains a lot.
Here’s a great Winogrand quote to live by:
“Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.”
I can only tell you - that is how I’ve always felt. And it’s the reason that I’m often unsure about how something is going to work out after I’ve photographed it. The big Ansel thing is pre-visualization - which I can understand - esp. when you’re lugging your 8 x 10 view camera up the mountain. New York shooting is different. Alot of it is finding out what the thing looks like based on how you photographed it. There really is no such thing as - well this is what it will look like because no matter how much you do it - the eyes, the brain - they don’t normally see things with a frame around it in two dimensions. You just don’t. Whatever lens you use - you are always transforming what you think you see.