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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
Something
Happenings
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Bang
Away
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Else
Print
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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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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'm talking about technical goofs. I'm pretty much on top of it. The kind of picture you're referring to would have to be more about the effects of technical things, technical phenomena, and I'm just not interested in that kind of work at all.
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I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.
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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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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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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 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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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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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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Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.
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I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
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I have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the developing. If somebody's going to goof my film, I'd better do it. I don't want to get that mad at anybody else.
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A photograph can look any way.
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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
Garry Winogrand
A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.
Garry Winogrand
When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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