Garry Winogrand Quotes
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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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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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Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.
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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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I pretty much know what I'm doing.
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I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.
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I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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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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What I know bores me.
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I don't know if I'm really the fastest. It doesn't matter.
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The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.
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I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.
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I generally deal with something happening.
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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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I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me.
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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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Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing; I'm not changing it.
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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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My only interest in photographing is photography.
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I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.
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What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.
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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.
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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.