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The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.
Garry Winogrand
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Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
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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 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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A photograph can look any way.
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I don't have anything to say in any picture.
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My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.
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I have no idea what's going to happen. Who knows - if they can't afford to buy a boat, maybe they buy a print. Who knows what happens with their buck?
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What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.
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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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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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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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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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If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.
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I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.
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I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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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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Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.
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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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As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it would have been very easy to just illustrate that idea about the relationships between the press and the event, you know.
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What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.
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