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Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.
Garry Winogrand
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Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
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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 develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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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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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 just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.
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You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.
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In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games.
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You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
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I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
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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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Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.
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I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.
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I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do.
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A photograph can look any way.
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I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.
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