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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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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.
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Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.
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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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I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do.
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Certainly, you know, you can always learn from some - from somebody else's - from some intelligence. I think. I hope.
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Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like street photographer are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
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There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.
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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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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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I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.
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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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I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.
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I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.
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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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