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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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