Untitled, 1968
From the Women Are Beautiful portfolio, published 1981
Monday, October 25th, 2021
"Whenever I've seen an attractive woman, I've done my best to photograph her. I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
By the term 'attractive woman,' I mean a woman I react to, positively. What do I react to in a woman? I do not mean as a man getting to know a woman, but as a photographer photographing. I know it's not just prettiness or physical dimensions. I suspect that I respond to their energies, how they stand and move their bodies and face. In the end, the photographs are descriptions of poses or attitudes that give an idea, a hint of their energies. After all, I do not know the women in these photographs. Not their names, work, or lives.
'Women Are Beautiful' is a good title for this book because they are."
Garry Winogrand
Austin, Texas 1975
From the introduction to the book WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL,
Published by LIGHT GALLERY, New York, 1975
