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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.
Garry Winogrand
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Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
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Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.
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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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I'm talking about technical goofs. I'm pretty much on top of it. The kind of picture you're referring to would have to be more about the effects of technical things, technical phenomena, and I'm just not interested in that kind of work at all.
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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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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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You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
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I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
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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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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 photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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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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I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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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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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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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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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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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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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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