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I may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take.

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
Wells
Well
Take
Going
Pictures
Move
Moving
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It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.
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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 photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks. In other words, it's responsible for the form.
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I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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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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There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.
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Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
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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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I have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the developing. If somebody's going to goof my film, I'd better do it. I don't want to get that mad at anybody else.
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I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
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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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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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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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There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing I'm not changing it.
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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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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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