Women Are Beautiful

Excerpt from an interview with Winogrand in Visions and Images: American Photographers on Photography. Interviews with photographers by Barbara Diamonstein, 1981–1982 (Rizzoli)Barbara Diamonstein: There is another record that you made of one of your interests, at least at the time! I'm referring to the book on women. How did you assemble that collection?Winogrand: It's the same thing, you know. I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do. I may very well do "Son of Women are Beautiful." I certainly have the work. I mean, I have the pictures if I wanted to try to get something like that published. It would be a joke.BD: Do you intend to?GW: No. That's all we need, another book like that! The thing that was interesting about doing that book was my difficulty in dealing with the pictures. When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting.