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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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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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Tod or Hank Wessel, Bill Dane, Paul McConough, Steve Shore. Robert Adams, for sure. I'm ready to see what they do.There's a lot of people working reasonably intelligently.
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I may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take.
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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less how.
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I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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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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A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.
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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 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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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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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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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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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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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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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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Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.
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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
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Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
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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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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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