Saturday, February 27, 2010

Garry Winogrand on teaching from AMERICANSUBURB X

Do you learn a great deal from your students? Do you have any new ideas, any reactions to their reactions?

GW: No, the only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions. Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see. Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me. But now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question. You know what I mean. It's not easy.

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