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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
Garry Winogrand
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Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
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New York City
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In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games.
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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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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.
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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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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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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 is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
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I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
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There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.
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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.
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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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I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
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There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.
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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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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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I have no idea what's going to happen. Who knows - if they can't afford to buy a boat, maybe they buy a print. Who knows what happens with their buck?
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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.
Garry Winogrand
