Defining things is dangerous and perhaps not particularly useful or necessary. Nevertheless, in trying to define something, you understand it more. Defining photography is very difficult. Perhaps the most successful definition has been given by Garry Winogrand and let's look at it. Photography, he told us, is the illusion of an exact description of a piece of time and a piece of space. In reality, then, the basic element of a photograph is the precise description. Nothing describes with greater accuracy than a camera lens does. However, we all have the sense that what is described is not the truth, it is an illusion of the truth, for many technical and other reasons. First and foremost, because a very important part of reality is cut off, which complements the described, and secondly, because nothing is absolutely the same as reality, and above all the absence of the third dimension. But what does a photograph describe? After all, the subjects of life are very few. People, buildings, landscapes. What is there to describe? What it describes, Winogrand tells us, is a piece of time and a piece of space. Thus, the celebratory movement that the photographer makes at the moment of pressing the button is to decide which piece of time and which piece of space from the world will be cut at that moment. If he realizes the great power he has, he will feel like the conductor who feels that the sound from the instruments of the orchestra is his own. That he brings it out. The capturing and cutting of time and space turns a simple photograph into a creation."