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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.

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
Photography
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I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.
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I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
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Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.
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I have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the developing. If somebody's going to goof my film, I'd better do it. I don't want to get that mad at anybody else.
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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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I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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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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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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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 pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.
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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks. In other words, it's responsible for the form.
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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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Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
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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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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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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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