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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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More quotes by Garry Winogrand
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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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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A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.
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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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When I'm photographing, I don't have that kind of nonsense running around in my head. I'm photographing. It's irrelevant in the end, so it doesn't mean a thing. It's not going to make me do better work or worse work as I can see it now.
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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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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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Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.
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If I ever hear Power to the people again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, All we are saying is give peace a chance. I couldn't believe it. I thought it was terrible I hated that song. They used to bring out the Pete Seeger wind-up toy to sing it. Tiresome.
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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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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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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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If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.
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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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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
Garry Winogrand
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
Garry Winogrand
Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
Garry Winogrand
There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
Garry Winogrand
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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