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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
Photographer
Photojournalist
New York City
New York
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World
Bore
Easiest
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