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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.

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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When I'm photographing, I don't have that kind of nonsense running around in my head. I'm photographing. It's irrelevant in the end, so it doesn't mean a thing. It's not going to make me do better work or worse work as I can see it now.
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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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I have no expectations. None at all.
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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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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 enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.
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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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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'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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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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You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.
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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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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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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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I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.
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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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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
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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.
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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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