Garry Winogrand Quotes:

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Topics: Important, Moments

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Topics: Photography, Four, Facts, Inspiring Photography, Street Photography

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

Topics: Talking, Want

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.

Topics: Bangs, Saws, Print

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. I have no preconceptions.

Topics: Photography, Looks, Interest, Preconceptions

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

Topics: Photography, Saws, Shake It Up, Street Photography, Photography By Photographers

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

Topics: Photography, People, Trying

I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

Topics: Photography, Thinking, Attractive

Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.

Topics: Nice, Want, Term, Nice Picture

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Topics: Photography, Mistake, Emotion, Street Photography

You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.

Topics: Looks, Photograph, Made

In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.

Topics: Four, Information, Facts

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

Topics: Mistake, Photographer, Emotion

You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

Topics: Photography, Teacher, Thinking

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

Topics: Photography, Battle, Photograph

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

Topics: Photography

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

Topics: Photography, Desire, Looks, Burning Desire

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

Topics: Photography, Mean, Reality

A photograph can look any way.

Topics: Photography, Looks, Way

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.

Topics: Photography, Divorce, Discipline

There is no special way a photograph should look.

Topics: Special, Way, Looks

There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

Topics: Photography, Photograph, Reloading

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

Topics: Photography, Stills

All things are photographable.

Topics: Photography

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

Topics: Photography, Space, Cameras, Literal

The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?

Topics: Photography, Done, Enough, Reloading, Get It Done

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

Topics: Photography, Looks, World

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

Topics: Light, Narrative, Surface

I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.

Topics: Photography, Thinking, Two, Being Responsible

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

Topics: Photography, Important, Technique

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

Topics: Photography, Looks

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

Topics: Photography, Facts, Mysterious

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed,

Topics: Looks, Photograph, Street Photography

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

Topics: Beautiful, Photography, Interesting

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

Topics: Beautiful, Photograph

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

Topics: Trying, World, Neat

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Topics: Cameras, World, Tickets

When I’m photographing I see life.

source: - "Garry Winogrand: the restless genius who gave street photography attitude" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2014.

There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.

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Topics: World, Four, Transformation

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

Topics: Ifs

Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .

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Topics: Mind, Surviving

I have no expectations. None at all.

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Topics: Expectations

When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting. I don't think I always got it straight.

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Topics: Thinking, Interesting, Headache

I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

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Topics: Different, Photograph, Interest

When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."

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Topics: Looks, Care, Photograph

Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.

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Topics: Artist, Discipline, Goes On

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.

Topics: Thinking, Cameras, Looks

What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.

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Topics: What If, Photograph, Made

I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.

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Topics: Photography, Know How, Knows

What I know bores me.

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Topics: Bores, Knows

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

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Topics: Trying

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 developing. If somebody's going to goof my film, I'd better do it. I don't want to get that mad at anybody else.

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Topics: Good Friend, Mad, Want, Goofs, Printer

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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Topics: Looks, Way, Photograph

All I'm doing is photographing. When I was working on The Animals, I was working on a lot of other things too. I kept going to the zoo because things were going on in certain pictures. It wasn't a project.

source: - The ASX Interview, www.americansuburbx.com. 1981.

Topics: Zoos, Animal, Projects

It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.

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Topics: Successful, Easy, Photograph

I'm a good craftsman and I can have this particular intention: let's say, I want a photograph that's going to push a certain button in an audience, to make them laugh or love, feel warm or hate or what - I know how to do this.

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Topics: Hate, Laughing, Buttons

If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.

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Topics: Children, Vacation, Play, Children Playing

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.

Topics: Mean, Intelligent, Attention

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

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Topics: Stills

People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

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Topics: People, Dumb

The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.

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Topics: Dumb, Buttons, Cameras

I generally deal with something happening.

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Topics: Deals, Happenings

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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Topics: Thinking, Editing, Stuff

Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the way puns function.

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Topics: Play, Way, Narrative

It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

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Topics: Successful, World, Photograph

There've been times it's been just impossible to find a negative or whatever. But I'm basically just a one man operation, and so things get messed up. I don't have a filing system that's worth very much.

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Topics: Men, Negative, Impossible, Filing, Messed Up

I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up. It's still, in a sense, magic to me. It's a funny thing, you know. I've got two kids, and when they were very young, they used to come in the darkroom and I thought they'd be astounded by that. Nothing. When they got a little older, then they got astounded by it.

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Topics: Kids, Funny Things, Two, Darkroom, Trays

I have to photograph where I am.

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Topics: Photograph

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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Topics: Talking, Kind, Not Interested, Goofs

There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.

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Topics: Ideas, Arbitrary, Horizontal

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

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Topics: Photograph

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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Topics: Design, Looks, Way

When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.

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Topics: Zoos, New York, Children

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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Topics: Ideas, Events, Easy

Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.

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Topics: Mean, Earning, Term

My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.

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Topics: Interesting, World, Photograph

Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.

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Topics: Unique, Ideas, Cameras

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

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Topics: Film, My Own

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

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Topics: Games, Trying, Problem

Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.

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Topics: Seductive, Cameras, Darkroom

I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or casually made, whatever you want to call it. Whatever terms you like. The fact is, when they're talking about snapshots they're talking about the family album picture, which is one of the most precisely made photographs.

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Topics: Believe, Talking, People

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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Topics: Interesting, Trying, Looks

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

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Topics: World, Language, Existence

Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

Topics: Stupid, Thinking, Titles

I don't know if I'm really the fastest. It doesn't matter.

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Topics: Matter, Knows, Ifs

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.

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Topics: Simple, Cameras, Use

A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

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Topics: Looks, Photograph, Depends

I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.

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Topics: Transformation, Photograph, Said

Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.

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Topics: Teaching, Relate

The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.

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Topics: Teaching, Class, Students

In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games.

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Topics: Games, Play, Looks

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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Topics: Running, Mean, Kind

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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Topics: Photography, Numbers, Peculiar

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.

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Topics: Games, Play, Interesting

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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Topics: Photography, Thinking, Worry

You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.

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Topics: Missing, Looks, Stuff

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.

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Topics: Interesting, Energy, Responsible

I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.

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Topics: Thinking, Made, Involved

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.

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Topics: Pyramids, Saws, Different

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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Topics: Interesting, Use, Made

I was a hired gun, more or less.

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Topics: Gun

I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.

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Topics: Survivor, Surviving

Nobody exists in a vacuum.

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Topics: Vacuums

Tod or Hank Wessel, Bill Dane, Paul McConough, Steve Shore. Robert Adams, for sure. I'm ready to see what they do.There's a lot of people working reasonably intelligently.

Topics: People, Bills, Shore

I pretty much know what I'm doing.

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Topics: Knows

I had an agent. When [Edward] Steichen was doing "The Family of Man", I went up to the office one day. I think Wayne Miller, who assisted Steichen with "The Family of Man," was up there and pulled out a bunch of pictures. So I got a message: "Take these pictures, call Steichen, make an appointment and take these pictures up there." And that's how I met him.

Topics: Thinking, Men, Office

I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.

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Topics: Fun, Interesting, Enjoy

I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

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Topics: Fun, Life Is Too Short, Photographer, Fun Life

A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.

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Topics: Thinking, Laughing, Upset

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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Topics: Photography, Art, Problem

When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.

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Topics: Ends, Concerned, Knows

If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.

Topics: Book, Thinking, Looks

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

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Topics: Struggle, Teaching, Interesting

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

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Topics: Way, Function, Frank

Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.

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Topics: War, Rights, Black, Black Power

Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.

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Topics: Way, Facts, Transformation

Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use is "charming." Something just happened. It's automatic, just operating a camera intelligently.

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Topics: Thinking, Cameras, Albums

You've got a lot going for you, you see. By just describing well with it, something happens.

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Topics: Wells, Describing, Happens

Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs.

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Topics: Talking, Way, Imagine

[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.

Topics: Photography, Thinking, Degrees, Impressionists

If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.

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Topics: Photography, Photograph, Stills

You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.

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Topics: Ideas, Giving, Lucky

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.

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Topics: Photography, Photograph, Knows

Everybody's entitled to their own experience.

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Topics: Entitled

Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.

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Topics: Animal, Way

At times people in the press were also useful to me.

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Topics: People, Presses

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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Topics: Song, Believe, Wind

Well, it was strange, because the phone rang and a teaching job turned up that sounded interesting. And I always did my own work. The Animals and a lot of Public Relations were done while I was doing commercial work.

source: - Interview with Barbaralee Diamonstein, www.americansuburbx.com. October 8, 2008.

Topics: Jobs, Teaching, Animal, Public Relations

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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Topics: Tired, Thinking, Would Be, Leica, Getting Tired

I have boxes of pictures that nothing is ever going to happen to. Even Public Relations. I mean, I was going to events long before, and I still am.

source: - The ASX Interview, www.americansuburbx.com. 1981.

Topics: Mean, Long, Events

I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.

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Topics: Kings, Thinking, Attention

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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Topics: Book, Want, Shows

I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

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Topics: Exercise, Two, Discipline, Two Heads

I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.

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Topics: California, Texas, Confusion

I enjoyed it [commercial work] until I stopped. You could travel and get around. I can't really explain why, I just didn't want to do it anymore.

Topics: Want, Enjoyed, I Can

Cameras intrigued me.

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Topics: Cameras, Intrigued

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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Topics: New York, Couple, Years

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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Topics: Texas, Years, Long

I may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take.

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Topics: Moving, May, Wells

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 already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.

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Topics: New York, Thinking, Entertainment

There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.

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Topics: Teaching, People, Kind

I felt that from my end, I should deal with the thing itself, which is the event. I pretty much functioned like the media itself.

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Topics: Media, Events, Ends

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

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Topics: Thinking, Knows

For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.

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Topics: Interesting, Kind, Problem

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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Topics: Thinking, Matter, Sides

There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.

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Topics: People, Ambitious, Masters

[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot there by the Fort Worth Art Museum for a show. I probably shot a total of fourteen days, give or take.

Topics: Art, Book, Museums, Livestock, Fort Worth

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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Topics: Thinking, Interesting, Trying

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.

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Topics: Thinking, People, Different

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.

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Topics: Wall, Students, Now And Then, Semester

There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.

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Topics: Cities, Trying, Photographer

In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.

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Topics: Mean, Matter, Problem

If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.

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Topics: Running, Real, Monkeys

People are going to have a good time, you know. One can go have a good time at these big openings in museums. And people go to have a good time. But the thing has another purpose.In the case of museums, it's always got to do with money, people who donate and things like that. And I believe a certain kind of interest has to be demonstrated.

Topics: Believe, Museums, People

The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.

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Topics: Museums, Hype, Evil, Large Crowds

It was interesting; it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a job, I think I'd have to get paid extra.

Topics: Jobs, Thinking, Interesting

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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Topics: Ideas, Bucks, Boat

I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.

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Topics: Thinking, Cameras, Irrelevant

I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.

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Topics: Teaching, Looks, Use, Leica

Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care less.

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Topics: Flower, Two, People

I'm shocked that I can live pretty well, or reasonably, or make a certain amount of my living, anyway, off of prints. I guess it's nuts. I don't believe in it. I never anticipated it; I still don't believe it.

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Topics: Believe, Nuts, Certain

Museum of Modern Art doesn't have anything to do with what I do. Probably has made some differences in my sales, I wouldn't be surprised. Again, you have to ask other people, because I don't have a measuring device.

Topics: Art, Differences, Museums