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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
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I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.
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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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I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.
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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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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 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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I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.
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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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I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.
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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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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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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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