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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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New York City
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More quotes by Garry Winogrand
I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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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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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use is charming. Something just happened. It's automatic, just operating a camera intelligently.
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There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.
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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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I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.
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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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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.
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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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There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.
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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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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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It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.
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I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
Garry Winogrand
The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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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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