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There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.
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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What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.
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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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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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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'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.
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A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.
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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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Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
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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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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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Certainly, you know, you can always learn from some - from somebody else's - from some intelligence. I think. I hope.
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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 don't have anything to say in any picture.
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