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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.

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
Discipline
Exercise
Least
Two
Anything
Exercises
Able
Ads
Work
Commercial
Heads

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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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I have no expectations. None at all.
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Tod or Hank Wessel, Bill Dane, Paul McConough, Steve Shore. Robert Adams, for sure. I'm ready to see what they do.There's a lot of people working reasonably intelligently.
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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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It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less how.
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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
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