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I was a hired gun, more or less.

Garry Winogrand

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Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
Photographer
Photojournalist
New York City
New York
Hired
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Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.
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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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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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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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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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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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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 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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It was interesting it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a job, I think I'd have to get paid extra.
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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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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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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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You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
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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'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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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 certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
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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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