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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.
Garry Winogrand
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Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
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New York City
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You use the vertical edge as the point of reference, instead of the horizontal edge. I have a picture of a beggar, where there's an arm coming into the frame from the side. And the arm is parallel to the horizontal edge and it makes it work. It's all games, you know. But it keeps it interesting to do, to play.
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I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
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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'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.
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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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Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
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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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I don't have anything to say in any picture.
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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less how.
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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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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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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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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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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
Garry Winogrand
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.
Garry Winogrand
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?
Garry Winogrand
Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.
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Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.
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