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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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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
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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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The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.
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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less how.
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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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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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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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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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'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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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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Tod or Hank Wessel, Bill Dane, Paul McConough, Steve Shore. Robert Adams, for sure. I'm ready to see what they do.There's a lot of people working reasonably intelligently.
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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 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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[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot there by the Fort Worth Art Museum for a show. I probably shot a total of fourteen days, give or take.
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