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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
Photographer
Photography
Looks
Thing
Photographed

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