Garry Winogrand Quotes
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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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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 know if I'm really the fastest. It doesn't matter.
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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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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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There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me how to use the stuff. That's all. I haven't done anything else since then, It was as simple as that. I fell into the business.
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The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed
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I don't know. I don't go around looking at my pictures. I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures. When the time comes, for whatever reason, I get involved in editing and getting some prints made and stuff. There are things that interest me. But I don't really mull over them a lot.
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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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I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.
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Cameras intrigued me.
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I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about.
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What I know bores me.
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For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.
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Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.
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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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I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.
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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
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I generally deal with something happening.
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Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.
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A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.
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I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
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For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.