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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

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 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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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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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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It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
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There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.
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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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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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You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks. In other words, it's responsible for the form.
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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less how.
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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'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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If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.
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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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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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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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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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