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Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.

Garry Winogrand

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Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
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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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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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You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.
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Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.
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Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
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In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games.
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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.
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Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.
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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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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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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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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
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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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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less how.
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