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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.

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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I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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A photograph can look any way.
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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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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 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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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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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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There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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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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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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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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I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
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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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You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.
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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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The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.
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