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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

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
Different
Interests
Photograph
Saying
Interest
Anything

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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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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
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It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.
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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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What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.
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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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Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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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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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
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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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Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
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I have no expectations. None at all.
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I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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When I'm photographing, I don't have that kind of nonsense running around in my head. I'm photographing. It's irrelevant in the end, so it doesn't mean a thing. It's not going to make me do better work or worse work as I can see it now.
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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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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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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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Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
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