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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.
Garry Winogrand
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Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
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New York City
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There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.
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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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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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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 don't go around looking at my pictures.
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You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.
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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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I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
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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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When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.
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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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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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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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There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
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Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
Garry Winogrand
There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.
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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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There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.
Garry Winogrand
I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
Garry Winogrand
The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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