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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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Photojournalist
New York City
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In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.
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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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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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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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Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.
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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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I have no expectations. None at all.
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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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There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.
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As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it would have been very easy to just illustrate that idea about the relationships between the press and the event, you know.
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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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What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.
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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.
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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 don't have anything to say in any picture.
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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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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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I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
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