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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
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A photograph can look any way.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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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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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'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.
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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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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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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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You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks. In other words, it's responsible for the form.
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I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do.
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I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.
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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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If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.
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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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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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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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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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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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