A lesson from Garry Winogrand: "Putting four edges around a set of facts changes those facts."

[@Fuegoshotz]

This was cool. Love your photos as well!

[@aestheticcontrol]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@Mel-95]

The image of the house in "Iowa" was a revelation. Thank you for introducing me to Nancy Rexroth. And to the intriguing theme: "you inexplicably change the facts with the frame." I'm now looking through my body of work from this point of view. Fascinating what one finds. Well presented.

[@aestheticcontrol]

Iowa is such an incredible body of work! Always happy to hear others find and appreciate her work! Thanks for watching

[@Kajoconnell]

Wow great video and wow you have serious photographic skill. Really stands out compared to the average KZbin photography channel.

[@bowenisland100]

Thanks for that: enjoyed the content and the style!

[@richardsimms251]

Great video

[@ToyoteroMundial]

Subscribed. Hope to see many more videos on your channel in 2024.

[@CentaurusRelax314]

My design mentor was an advertising creative director back in the real ‘mad men’ era. He was a friend of Garry (and also, more so, Elliot Erwitt!). Garry came to him, looking for some work as a photographer. My boss said, “Garry, you know I can’t hire you-the negs will all come back with snot on them.”

[@aestheticcontrol]

Incredible! 😂

[@jeff6660]

Great photographer.

[@jamesnicol3831]

gary defines the snap shot elevated to Art

[@jamesnicol3831]

I had Gary for 2 semesters at SVA in nyc and learned what still photography is Thank you for your photo scholarship

[@TheLily97232]

Winogrand really speaks to me, the way he describes photography and the photographic experience, especially the notion of the "experience of the moment" is just right !

[@stevendiffey9162]

I really enjoyed this video. Subbed. Can’t wait to see more of your videos. Only 1 thing. I’d lower the the music 3-6db. Cool tracks though.

[@silvestersze9968]

“Putting four edges around a set of facts changes those facts.”, what does the ‘second’ facts mean?

[@aestheticcontrol]

It's still referring to the first instance of "facts" but it means that by making a photo of a scene, lets say a man jumping over a puddle, you have removed that scene from the context of the world and the moment when it was happening. It is now a photograph which can be re-contextualized and take on a different meaning or reading depending on what items of events are in the frame, what the photograph is displayed beside in a gallery, or how it is sequenced in a book. Or even as time passes, the photograph of a man jumping over a puddle can be read differently with hindsight of when it was made versus how things are in the world now.

[@silvestersze9968]

@@aestheticcontrol Ahh… gotcha! I see. I appreciate your thorough explanation though. That does remind me of an image of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s ‘rising work’ or the piece of work that made him famous. I’ve forgotten the title.

[@silvestersze9968]

@@aestheticcontrol This’s such a beautiful and brilliant idea 💡 from what he had said or meant. 👍🏻 That’ll make me rethink what I should put inside that four edges… haha 😛

[@587583922]

Black cats are NOT bad luck traditionally. That was a very modern invention. Black cats were especially prized on ships because they tend to be particularly good at hunting rats below decks on ships and were considered a good omen for the voyage.