Some photographs fail, Garry would say, because...

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Some photographs fail, Garry would say, because the problems with the framing hadn’t been overcome. In other words, there was no reason to take the photograph or print it. He often added that photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the picture as judgment that the photograph is good. (He used this as a reason to wait months or years before developing some of his film – so he would not judge based on emotion, but on objective terms.)

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Winogrand on framing and emotion |
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“The problem of framing” is probably what I think most about regarding photography. I’m probably still affected by the “rule of thirds” but all I tend to think about when I make photos is to fit what I want into them, in some way I find interesting, and leave out what I don’t want in the frame.

Edit: This is not to say that I understand in depth what Winogrand was on about, although I’d love to. This is just my probably simplified, or plain wrong, take on it.

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