Garry Winogrand Quotes
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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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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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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 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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I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
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I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or casually made, whatever you want to call it. Whatever terms you like. The fact is, when they're talking about snapshots they're talking about the family album picture, which is one of the most precisely made photographs.
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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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When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.
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I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
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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 have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.
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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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When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting. I don't think I always got it straight.
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I felt that from my end, I should deal with the thing itself, which is the event. I pretty much functioned like the media itself.
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A photograph can look any way.
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The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed
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Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the way puns function.
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Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.
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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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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.