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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .

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
Mind
Surviving

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Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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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.
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If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.
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Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
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I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.
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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 are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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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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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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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.
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Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.
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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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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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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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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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