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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

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
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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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Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
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Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.
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Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.
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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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