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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.

Garry Winogrand

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Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
Photographer
Photojournalist
New York City
New York
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I don't have anything to say in any picture.
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