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Trying Quotes by Garry Winogrand

9 Trying quotes by Garry Winogrand

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Winogrand’s take on trying feels like a candid street shot—raw, immediate, and unexpected. These nine lines give a quick sense of how the photographer views effort amid the chaos of everyday life. A handy snapshot for those who appreciate his visual lens.

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I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.

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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.

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The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

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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 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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There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things…

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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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There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers…

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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…

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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

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There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

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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.…

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I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that…

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There is no special way a photograph should look.

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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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I have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the…

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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…

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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.

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