Garry Winogrand
[Photographer, b. 1928, New York, d. 1984, Tijuana, Mexico.]
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 photograph isn’t what was photographed. It’s something else. It’s a new fact.
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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. The good ones are on the border of failure.
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You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else—and whichever is better you print.
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Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
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I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of [my photographs]... Certainly while I’m working, I want them to be as useless as possible.
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There are no photographs while I’m reloading.
(On being asked how he felt about missing photographs while he reloaded his camera with film.) ![](/images/rdquo.gif)
Hopefully the picture will be more interesting than what I photograph.
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