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Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

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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Frank
Function
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