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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.

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
Surviving
Survivor

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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 photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
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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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There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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I have no expectations. None at all.
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I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.
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Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.
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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it would have been very easy to just illustrate that idea about the relationships between the press and the event, you know.
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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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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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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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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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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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