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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
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New York City
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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 the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
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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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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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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
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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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Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
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Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like street photographer are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
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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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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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There are people who like photography there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.
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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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Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.
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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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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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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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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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