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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

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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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.
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I don't have anything to say in any picture.
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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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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games.
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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
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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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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.
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I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.
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I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do.
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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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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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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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Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use is charming. Something just happened. It's automatic, just operating a camera intelligently.
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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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