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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
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Design
Word
Whatever
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There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like street photographer are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
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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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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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I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.
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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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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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Certainly, you know, you can always learn from some - from somebody else's - from some intelligence. I think. I hope.
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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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There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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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 have anything to say in any picture.
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It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.
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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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There are people who like photography there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.
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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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Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
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There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.
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