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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
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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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There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
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If I ever hear Power to the people again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, All we are saying is give peace a chance. I couldn't believe it. I thought it was terrible I hated that song. They used to bring out the Pete Seeger wind-up toy to sing it. Tiresome.
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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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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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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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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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Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.
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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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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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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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You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
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I have no idea what's going to happen. Who knows - if they can't afford to buy a boat, maybe they buy a print. Who knows what happens with their buck?
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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
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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 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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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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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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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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