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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.

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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[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot there by the Fort Worth Art Museum for a show. I probably shot a total of fourteen days, give or take.
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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 certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
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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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Tod or Hank Wessel, Bill Dane, Paul McConough, Steve Shore. Robert Adams, for sure. I'm ready to see what they do.There's a lot of people working reasonably intelligently.
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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 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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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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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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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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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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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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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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I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.
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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less how.
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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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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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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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Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.
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