Garry Winogrand “I don’t Give a Rap about Gasoline Stations” by Gerry Badger
Garry Winogrand: … I forgot what year when Robert Franks book came out. He was working pretty much around that time, 55 or whenever it was. And there were photographs in there, particularly that gas station photograph, that I learned an immense amount from …’
Student: ‘What you’re responding to, is it the quality of the intelligence that states the problem?
Garry Winogrand: ‘Yeah, I don’t give a rap about gasoline stations …
‘… the decision is to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore the domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness, and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned intention, the life where a man must go until he is beat, where he must gamble with his energies through all those small or large crises of courage and unforseen situations which beset his day …’ Norman Mailer, The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster 1961
