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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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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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[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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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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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 don't go around looking at my pictures.
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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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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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It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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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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What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.
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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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There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.
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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.
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When I'm photographing, I don't have that kind of nonsense running around in my head. I'm photographing. It's irrelevant in the end, so it doesn't mean a thing. It's not going to make me do better work or worse work as I can see it now.
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