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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.

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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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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There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.
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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
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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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The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.
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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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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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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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There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.
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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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I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
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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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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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If I ever hear Power to the people again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, All we are saying is give peace a chance. I couldn't believe it. I thought it was terrible I hated that song. They used to bring out the Pete Seeger wind-up toy to sing it. Tiresome.
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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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You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
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Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.
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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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