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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.

Garry Winogrand

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Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
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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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Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use is charming. Something just happened. It's automatic, just operating a camera intelligently.
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I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.
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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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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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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 may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take.
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I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.
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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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I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
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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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When I'm photographing, I don't have that kind of nonsense running around in my head. I'm photographing. It's irrelevant in the end, so it doesn't mean a thing. It's not going to make me do better work or worse work as I can see it now.
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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.
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A photograph can look any way.
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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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Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
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