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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
Really
Photograph
Photography
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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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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 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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A photograph can look any way.
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In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.
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I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do.
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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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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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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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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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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There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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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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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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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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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 have no expectations. None at all.
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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.
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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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