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Garry Winogrand Quotes: 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.
         

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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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.



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



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



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





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