Garry Winogrand, along with Lee Friedlander and Diane Arbus, defined a new approach to street photography in 1960s and 1970s.
Today’s FFP comes by way of Jeb, and the shooter spotlight is on Garry Winogrand. Los Angeles, 1964. gelatin-silver print, 11 x 14 inches (sheet) Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1964. gelatin-silver print, 11 x 14 inches (sheet) Southampton, Long Island, 1966. gelatin-silver print, 11 x 14 inches (sheet) Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1957. Winogrand is often understood as a photographer of crowds rather than of isolation. Legend has it that the minute he stepped into a darkroom in college, Winogrand forever abandoned painting for … Modeled on John Szarkowski’s classic book Atget, The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand is a masterfully curated selection of one hundred photographs from the Winogrand archive at the Center for Creative Photography, with each image accompanied by an original essay.
Enjoy. The first comprehensive overview of the work of Garry Winogrand, long out of print and difficult to come by, contains an eloquent and important essay on the life and work of the photographer by John Szarkowski and a lavish plate section presenting the photographs thematically. Artist: Garry Winogrand (American, New York 1928–1984 Tijuana, Mexico) Date: 1952, printed 1974 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession: 1978.660.1 On view …
begins by ruminating on “ Figments of the Real World, Winogrand’s massive, out of print 1988 MOMA monograph,” from which he quotes several passages, … Garry Winogrand was many things; […] Award-winning writer Geoff Dyer has admired Winogrand's work for many years. Garry Winogrand: Color presents the color work in eight sections that highlight Winogrand’s diverse subjects and varying approaches to color photography. The picture is taken on the road, in real life, as it were, but it looks like one of those “How many students can you get in a Mini?” competitions staged in a TV studio. Award-winning writer Geoff Dyer has admired Winogrand’s work for many years. After winning a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964, Winogrand set out on the road, and his subject matter evolves towards cars, buses, airplane travel, transportation, and the eccentric roadside tourist attractions and fairs of middle America, many of which are filled with eye-popping colors.
Five Favorite Photos is a new feature where one of the writers here at CP picks a well-known photographer and takes on the near-impossible task of picking just five favorite shots from that pro. As a follow-up to Sightseeing with Garry Winogrand, we uncovered an image of a late Winogrand contact sheet of Los Angeles photos (see below) on a 2007 blog post by a blogger named “J.T.”, who offers his own take on Winogrand’s late work. Garry Winogrand is considered one of the most important American photographers of the 20th century, during which he amassed an archive of images capturing its evolving attitudes and anxieties.