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There is no special way a photograph should look.

Garry Winogrand

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Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
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New York City
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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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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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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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There are people who like photography there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.
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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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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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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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Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.
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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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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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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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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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Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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I don't have anything to say in any picture.
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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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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
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