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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 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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I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
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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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Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
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I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.
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Tod or Hank Wessel, Bill Dane, Paul McConough, Steve Shore. Robert Adams, for sure. I'm ready to see what they do.There's a lot of people working reasonably intelligently.
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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
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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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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.
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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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If I ever hear Power to the people again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, All we are saying is give peace a chance. I couldn't believe it. I thought it was terrible I hated that song. They used to bring out the Pete Seeger wind-up toy to sing it. Tiresome.
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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 think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
Garry Winogrand
You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.
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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.
Garry Winogrand
I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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