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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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A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.
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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
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I have no expectations. None at all.
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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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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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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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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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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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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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.
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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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