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Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

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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Photographs
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Teaching
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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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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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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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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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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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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less how.
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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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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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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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As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it would have been very easy to just illustrate that idea about the relationships between the press and the event, you know.
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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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When I'm photographing, I don't have that kind of nonsense running around in my head. I'm photographing. It's irrelevant in the end, so it doesn't mean a thing. It's not going to make me do better work or worse work as I can see it now.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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A photograph can look any way.
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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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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.
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