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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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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.
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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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I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.
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I'm talking about technical goofs. I'm pretty much on top of it. The kind of picture you're referring to would have to be more about the effects of technical things, technical phenomena, and I'm just not interested in that kind of work at all.
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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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A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.
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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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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 don't go around looking at my pictures.
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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 sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
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You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
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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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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less how.
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
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