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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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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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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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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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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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I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
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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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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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Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.
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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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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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You use the vertical edge as the point of reference, instead of the horizontal edge. I have a picture of a beggar, where there's an arm coming into the frame from the side. And the arm is parallel to the horizontal edge and it makes it work. It's all games, you know. But it keeps it interesting to do, to play.
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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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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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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It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.
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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'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.
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I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.
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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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