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What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

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
Looks
Photograph
Responsible
Design
Word
Whatever
Use
Form

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When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.
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I have no expectations. None at all.
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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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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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I'm talking about technical goofs. I'm pretty much on top of it. The kind of picture you're referring to would have to be more about the effects of technical things, technical phenomena, and I'm just not interested in that kind of work at all.
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There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
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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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As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it would have been very easy to just illustrate that idea about the relationships between the press and the event, you know.
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I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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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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You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.
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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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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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Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.
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