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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

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
Things
Photograph
Interested

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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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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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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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I'm talking about technical goofs. I'm pretty much on top of it. The kind of picture you're referring to would have to be more about the effects of technical things, technical phenomena, and I'm just not interested in that kind of work at all.
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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
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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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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.
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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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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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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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