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Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like street photographer are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

Garry Winogrand

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Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
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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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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 think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.
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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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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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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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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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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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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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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 don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.
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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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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.
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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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I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.
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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'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.
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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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