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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less how.

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
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Photographs
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Couldn
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I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
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I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.
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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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It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
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If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.
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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
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It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.
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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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In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
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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 have anything to say in any picture.
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The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.
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