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I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.

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
Sometimes
Think
Thinking
Mechanic
Pictures
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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.
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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 have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the developing. If somebody's going to goof my film, I'd better do it. I don't want to get that mad at anybody else.
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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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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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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
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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.
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I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.
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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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Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.
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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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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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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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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 develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
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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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