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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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More quotes by Garry Winogrand
Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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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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There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use is charming. Something just happened. It's automatic, just operating a camera intelligently.
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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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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 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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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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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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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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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.
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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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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.
Garry Winogrand
You use the vertical edge as the point of reference, instead of the horizontal edge. I have a picture of a beggar, where there's an arm coming into the frame from the side. And the arm is parallel to the horizontal edge and it makes it work. It's all games, you know. But it keeps it interesting to do, to play.
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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
Garry Winogrand
I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
Garry Winogrand
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
You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.
Garry Winogrand
[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.
Garry Winogrand
