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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 don't go around looking at my pictures.
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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 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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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
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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 have no expectations. None at all.
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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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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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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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Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.
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A photograph can look any way.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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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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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 certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
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Tod or Hank Wessel, Bill Dane, Paul McConough, Steve Shore. Robert Adams, for sure. I'm ready to see what they do.There's a lot of people working reasonably intelligently.
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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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There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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