Garry Winograd

“If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.”

Garry took photographs like he was in the moment he captured. He didn’t take it as if he wanted to keep it with him for the rest of his life; he took the picture as if he wanted to remember the emotions he experienced. The majority of Garry’s pictures showed this. They weren’t just pictures of random events, they were pictures of everything. All his photos had elements of suspense, clarity, impending doom, serenity and  dishevelment. All of these emotions came together to create each and every photo that he took. The black and white he used also helped. The black and white kept everything simple, You look at one point of the picture, and it is the focal point. That helped his photographs immensely. Had they been color photos, he wouldn’t be able to convey the same emotions.

The exhibit was a good experience. The way Winograd was able to recreate his experiences made you feel like you were there with him. This was probably why he said the quote from the beginning, to reassure us that we weren’t actually there. Some of his images weren’t as emotional as others. I thought that some of the images were stuck in the exhibit just to fill up space, but the photographs that had emotion were truly breathtaking. One of the photographs that I personally enjoyed was the one photo he had of a city. He most likely took the photo from a helicopter, but it was amazing. The black and white of that photo helped bring out the contrast between the ocean and the companies situated along the oceanside. Other than that photo, there were a couple of other ones that I like just as much.