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It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
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 pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.
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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 was interesting it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a job, I think I'd have to get paid extra.
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I'm talking about technical goofs. I'm pretty much on top of it. The kind of picture you're referring to would have to be more about the effects of technical things, technical phenomena, and I'm just not interested in that kind of work at all.
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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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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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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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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
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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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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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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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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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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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I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
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