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It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.

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
Photographs
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Successful
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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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There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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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 don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
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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 think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
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I have no idea what's going to happen. Who knows - if they can't afford to buy a boat, maybe they buy a print. Who knows what happens with their buck?
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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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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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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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Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing I'm not changing it.
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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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Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.
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