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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
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When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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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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What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.
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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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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.
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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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