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There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

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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Mysterious
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Photography
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I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.
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If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.
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In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.
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Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use is charming. Something just happened. It's automatic, just operating a camera intelligently.
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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
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I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.
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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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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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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.
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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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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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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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Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
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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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It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
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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 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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