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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

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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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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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 certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
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In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.
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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.
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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less how.
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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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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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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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It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
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I don't have anything to say in any picture.
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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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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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There are people who like photography there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.
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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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I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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