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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
Teaching
Struggle
Talk
Interesting
Trying
Work
Photographs
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In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.
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Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.
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I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
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[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot there by the Fort Worth Art Museum for a show. I probably shot a total of fourteen days, give or take.
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There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
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I have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the developing. If somebody's going to goof my film, I'd better do it. I don't want to get that mad at anybody else.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.
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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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A photograph can look any way.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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I have no expectations. None at all.
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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
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It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.
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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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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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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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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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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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