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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.

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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Existing
Thinking
Closest
Attractive
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Photography
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If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.
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I don't have anything to say in any picture.
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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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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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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 is no special way a photograph should look.
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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.
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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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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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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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Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.
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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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There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.
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I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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