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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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Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
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There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
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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 photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.
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I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.
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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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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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Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.
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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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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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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 develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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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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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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I don't have anything to say in any picture.
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It was interesting it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a job, I think I'd have to get paid extra.
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The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.
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