Garry Winogrand Quotes
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I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.
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The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.
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You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
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When I'm photographing, I don't have that kind of nonsense running around in my head. I'm photographing. It's irrelevant in the end, so it doesn't mean a thing. It's not going to make me do better work or worse work as I can see it now.
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You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks. In other words, it's responsible for the form.
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At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
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There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.
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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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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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[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that could be happening, to some degree, with photography, too. It doesn't cost as much to do it, either.
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Nobody exists in a vacuum.
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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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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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I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.
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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'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do.
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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."
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A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
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There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.
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It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.
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There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
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Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.