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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.
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
Photography
Saws
Whichever
Either
Bang
Away
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Else
Print
Better
Photographer
Something
Happenings
Happening
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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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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 don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
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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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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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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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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
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I don't have anything to say in any picture.
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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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Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.
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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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I have no expectations. None at all.
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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less how.
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