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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.

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
Times
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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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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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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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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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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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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.
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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's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.
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If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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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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A photograph can look any way.
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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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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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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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
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