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“Cameras intrigued me.”

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Garry Winogrand

Garry Winogrand was an American photographer known for his distinctive street photography style. His work captured the diversity and vitality of American society in the mid-20th century, particularly skilled at capturing moments in everyday life. Winogrand's style was unique, often depicting the face of American society with humor and satire. more

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“Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.”

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“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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“I was a hired gun, more or less.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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

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