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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.
Garry Winogrand
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Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
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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 don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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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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There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.
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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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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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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 care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.
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I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.
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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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Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
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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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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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There are people who like photography there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.
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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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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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Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
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