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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.

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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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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There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.
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I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.
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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.
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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'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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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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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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Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use is charming. Something just happened. It's automatic, just operating a camera intelligently.
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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less how.
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There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
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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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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
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There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.
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