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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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Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
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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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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 know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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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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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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I don't have anything to say in any picture.
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There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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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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There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.
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A photograph can look any way.
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I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.
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The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.
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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
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It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.
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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
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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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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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