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I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.

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
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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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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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Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like street photographer are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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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 certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
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A photograph can look any way.
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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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Certainly, you know, you can always learn from some - from somebody else's - from some intelligence. I think. I hope.
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
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I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.
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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
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When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.
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I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.
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Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
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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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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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