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You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks. In other words, it's responsible for the form.
Garry Winogrand
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Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
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My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.
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I may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take.
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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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If I ever hear Power to the people again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, All we are saying is give peace a chance. I couldn't believe it. I thought it was terrible I hated that song. They used to bring out the Pete Seeger wind-up toy to sing it. Tiresome.
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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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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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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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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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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'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.
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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
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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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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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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
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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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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
Garry Winogrand
