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Garry Winogrand Biography

Garry Winogrand (14 January 1928 – 19 March 1984) was an American street photographer, from the Bronx, New York, known for his portrayal of U.S. life, and its social issues, in the mid-20th century. Though he photographed in Los Angeles and elsewhere, Winogrand was essentially a New York photographer.

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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.

Irrelevant, Kind, Mean, Photographing, Running, See

I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do.

Compulsively, Funny, Interested, Photographed, Stills, Women

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.

Numbers, Peculiar, Photography, Responsible, Things

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

Hired, Know, Knows, Photograph, Photography

If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.

Ifs, Picture, Take

What I know bores me.

Bores, Knows, Know

I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about.

Interesting, Photographically, Think, Thinking, Trying

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

Photo, Photographer, Photography, Stills, Thing

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.

Discipline, Divorce, Make, Photographs, Photography, Useless

I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.

Care, Different, People, Thinking

Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

Emotion, Mistake, Photograph, Photographer, Photographers

Certainly, you know, you can always learn from some - from somebody else's - from some intelligence. I think. I hope.

Hope, Know, Knows, Learn, Somebody, Thinking

People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

Dumb, Misunderstand, People

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

Photography, Battle, Photographer, Photograph, Versus

Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question.

Asks, Now And Then, Question, Students, Wall

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.

Business, Cameras, Done, Simple, Use

When I’m photographing I see life.

Life, Photographing, See

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.

Frame, Games, Horizontal, Interesting, Play, Point

There are no photographs while I'm reloading.

Photograph, Photographer, Photographs, Photography, Reloading

I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.

Different, Kind, Pyramids, Saw, Sphinx

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