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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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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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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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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.
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I have no expectations. None at all.
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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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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You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
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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 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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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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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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I have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the developing. If somebody's going to goof my film, I'd better do it. I don't want to get that mad at anybody else.
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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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