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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
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New York City
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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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There are people who like photography there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.
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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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It was interesting it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a job, I think I'd have to get paid extra.
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