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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
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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 may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take.
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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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There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.
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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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I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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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.
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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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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less how.
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I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.
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If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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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 don't go around looking at my pictures.
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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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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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It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.
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I don't have anything to say in any picture.
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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 are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.
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