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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.

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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Everything
Thing
Photographing
Always
Difficulties
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Fun
Interesting
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I have no idea what's going to happen. Who knows - if they can't afford to buy a boat, maybe they buy a print. Who knows what happens with their buck?
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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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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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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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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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There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it would have been very easy to just illustrate that idea about the relationships between the press and the event, you know.
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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot there by the Fort Worth Art Museum for a show. I probably shot a total of fourteen days, give or take.
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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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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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The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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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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In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.
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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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It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
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Certainly, you know, you can always learn from some - from somebody else's - from some intelligence. I think. I hope.
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