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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

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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Surface
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Light
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I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.
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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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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 the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.
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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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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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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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Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing I'm not changing 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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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.
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I have no expectations. None at all.
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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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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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It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.
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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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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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