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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

Garry Winogrand

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Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
Photographer
Photojournalist
New York City
New York
Photographed
Photographer
Photography
Looks
Thing

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Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing I'm not changing it.
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It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
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Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
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You use the vertical edge as the point of reference, instead of the horizontal edge. I have a picture of a beggar, where there's an arm coming into the frame from the side. And the arm is parallel to the horizontal edge and it makes it work. It's all games, you know. But it keeps it interesting to do, to play.
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As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it would have been very easy to just illustrate that idea about the relationships between the press and the event, you know.
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I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.
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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.
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There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.
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You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
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It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.
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You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.
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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less how.
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The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.
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I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.
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