INTERVIEW QUOTES:

“Maybe, but it’s more complicated: maybe for him the endless encounters with what can be infinitely reduced occurrences, the tireless recording of them, often without looking through the viewfinder, maybe that process got to the point it did because he was in a state of recognition that “occurrences” themselves are a single sort of thing – brief concentrations of human or animal energy forming erratically through often in structured spaces, and in the presence of a recording device.”

‘it seems that Winogrand was flirting with the side that the photographic act will always and inevitably transform things into a picture and that “composition” is entirely secondary to this phenomenon.”

“The “weak” claim reflects or expresses a certain ambivalence about art that was characteristic of the avant-garde, or the avant-garde period. But things have moved from there and ow there’s less reason to want to undermine art, especially “Art”, and more reason now to want to preserve it as a possibility since it is to an unprecedented extent threatened with a kind of dissolution into a mass culture of a global culture.”