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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

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
Misunderstand
Dumb
People

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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
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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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It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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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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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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I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
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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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It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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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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As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it would have been very easy to just illustrate that idea about the relationships between the press and the event, you know.
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I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.
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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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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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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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If I ever hear Power to the people again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, All we are saying is give peace a chance. I couldn't believe it. I thought it was terrible I hated that song. They used to bring out the Pete Seeger wind-up toy to sing it. Tiresome.
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I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.
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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
Garry Winogrand