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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
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Surviving
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There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.
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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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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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It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.
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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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I'm talking about technical goofs. I'm pretty much on top of it. The kind of picture you're referring to would have to be more about the effects of technical things, technical phenomena, and I'm just not interested in that kind of work at all.
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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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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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It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.
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Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.
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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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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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I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.
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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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I have no expectations. None at all.
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You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.
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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less how.
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