Book Review: Garry Winogrand

Book Review: Garry Winogrand

Garry Winogrand . Photographs by Garry Winogrand. Published by Yale University Press , 2013.   Garry Winogrand Reviewed by Blake An…

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All in all, the book has the size and scope we’ve come to expect from similar retrospectives. It feels comparable to Friedlander, the 2005 MoMA survey. That is to say, both are enormous, calculated, and resourceful. Both will flatten any troublesome print left underneath. And both attempt a task which is perhaps impossible, to sum up 40 odd years in a few hundred pages and improve the understanding of someone already very well known