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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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You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.
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I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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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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Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.
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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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[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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Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
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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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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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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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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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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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Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.
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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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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all 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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