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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
Photographer
Totally
Photography
Best
Come
Think
Existing
Thinking
Closest
Attractive

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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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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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Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.
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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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I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.
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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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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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Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing I'm not changing it.
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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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You use the vertical edge as the point of reference, instead of the horizontal edge. I have a picture of a beggar, where there's an arm coming into the frame from the side. And the arm is parallel to the horizontal edge and it makes it work. It's all games, you know. But it keeps it interesting to do, to play.
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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 enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.
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If I ever hear Power to the people again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, All we are saying is give peace a chance. I couldn't believe it. I thought it was terrible I hated that song. They used to bring out the Pete Seeger wind-up toy to sing it. Tiresome.
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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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A photograph can look any way.
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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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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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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less how.
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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 expectations. None at all.
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