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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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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'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.
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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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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 enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.
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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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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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It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.
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A photograph can look any way.
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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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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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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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