Tag: Garry Winogrand
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What Garry Winogrand Saw in Color | The New Yorker
What Garry Winogrand Saw in Color A rarely seen body of Winogrand’s work is more inviting than his black-and-white pictures, but no less layered or sly. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-garry-winogrand-saw-in-color His pictures look perfectly artless, the opposite of the decisive moment and the epitome of the snapshot aesthetic. Working outdoors, mostly on the urban…
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AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: "Monkeys Make the Problem More Difficult – A Collective Interview with Garry Winogrand" (1970)
Link: Garry Winogrand (1928- ) spent two days in Rochester, New York, in October, 1970. On Friday, the 9th, he was the guest of the Rochester Institute of Technology. On Saturday, the 10th, he visited the Visual Studies Workshop, also in Rochester. The format was identical on both occasions: Winogrand, without comment, showed slides of…
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Standing on the Corner – Reflections Upon Garry Winogrand's Photographic Gaze – Mirror of Self or World?" (1991)
Standing on the Corner – Reflections Upon Garry Winogrand’s Photographic Gaze – Mirror of Self or World? Part II (1991) Whenever I see it, I immediately hear a voice singing, “Standing on the corner watching all the girls go by.” Yes, it is a sexist work. But that is a fact about Winogrand we must…
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Unseen Garry Winogrand Color Photographs
Link: Photographer Nick Turpin, who I first came across through the in-public street photography site and who writes the blog 779, has just published a rare selection of 20 Garry Winogrand color photographs.
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The Mystery at the Heart of Great Photographs – The New York Times
The Mystery at the Heart of Great Photographs (Published 2016) Pictures that capture a moment in history sometimes contain a glint of magic, an element of wonder that can never be fully understood. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/magazine/the-mystery-at-the-heart-of-great-photographs.html Larry Sultan once said he “always thought of a great photograph as if some creature walked into my room; it’s…
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Rediscovering Garry Winogrand’s long forgotten color work – Feature Shoot
Rediscovering Garry Winogrand’s long forgotten color work – Feature Shoot Garry Winogrand (American, 1928-1984). Untitled (Cape Cod), 1966. 35mm color slide. Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. During the 1950s and ‘60s, Garry Winogrand made… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/05/rediscovering-garry-winogrands-long-forgotten-color-work/ Known best for his black and white photographs that pioneered a…
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Garry Winogrand Is the Forgotten Photographer Behind These Iconic Images
This Forgotten Street Photographer Shot Some of Our Most Iconic Images Garry Winogrand led a controversial life, but he left the world a trove of genius photographs. via Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gyem9q/garry-winogrand-documentary-forgotten-street-photographer Garry Winogrand led a controversial life, but he left the world a trove of genius photographs.
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How Garry Winogrand Transformed Street Photography | The New Yorker
How Garry Winogrand Transformed Street Photography The new documentary “All Things Are Photographable” shows how Winogrand’s presence, engagement, and risk were inseparable from and essential to the resulting images. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/how-garry-winogrand-transformed-street-photography A new documentary, “All Things Are Photographable,” traces how the legendarily prolific photographer pulled his art form into modernity.
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Trailer: The First Documentary About Street Photographer Garry Winogrand
Trailer: The First Documentary About Street Photographer Garry Winogrand Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable is an upcoming documentary film about the life and work of famous American street photographer Garry via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/08/30/trailer-the-first-documentary-about-street-photographer-garry-winogrand/ Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable is an upcoming documentary film about the life and work of famous American street photographer…
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Walking the Streets with Geoff Dyer & Garry Winogrand | by Richard B. Woodward | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
Walking the Streets with Geoff Dyer & Garry Winogrand Geoff Dyer’s new book, The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand, is more linear than his first, The Ongoing Moment, but no less idiosyncratic. Selecting one hundred images from among the estimated one million that the fantastically prolific street photogr via The New York Review of Books:…
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“I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff.” For a photographer with so many memorable quips to his name, Garry Winogrand didn’t leave much of a paper trail. The four books he made du… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2018/04/i-really-try-to-divorce-myself-from-any.html For a photographer with so many memorable quips to his name, Garry…
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Why Did Garry Winogrand Photograph That? – The New York Times
Why Did Garry Winogrand Photograph That? In “The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand,” Geoff Dyer picked 100 of the street photographer’s images and wrote essays about each one. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/lens/garry-winogrand-geoff-dyer.html Thirty-four years after his death, Garry Winogrand’s photographs continue to charm, befuddle and amaze viewers. A new book, “The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand,” takes…
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“Welcome to the Winogrand Circus” – Gary Winogrand speaks to students at Rice University | dvafoto
“Welcome to the Winogrand Circus” – Gary Winogrand speaks to students at Rice University It’s Winningham who introduces Winogrand, saying “Welcome to the Winogrand circus,” and then Winogrand asks for questions from the students. He talks about how he works, his approach to different subjects, and the work of other photographers (Robert Frank, Walker Evans,…
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Garry Winogrand Talks to University Students About Photography in 1977
Garry Winogrand Talks to University Students About Photography in 1977 Garry Winogrand was one of the most notable and prolific American street photographers of the 20th century. He is known for capturing a vast record of via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/02/22/garry-winogrand-talks-to-university-students-about-photography-in-1977/ In 1977, Winogrand was invited to speak to Rice Students about photography. Over the course of…
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Garry Winogrand – Garry Winogrand: Behind the Legend | LensCulture
Garry Winogrand: Behind the Legend – Photographs by Garry Winogrand | LensCulture A blockbuster exhibition, a jam-packed catalogue—and an extended interview with the man responsible for the curatorial vision behind this once-in-a-generation exhibition via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/garry-winogrand-garry-winogrand-behind-the-legend LensCulture assistant editor Alexander Strecker had the opportunity to sit down with the curator of the show, Leo Rubinfien, to…
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Jeu de Paume : Garry Winogrand, Unstable Balance – The Eye of Photography
Jeu de Paume : Garry Winogrand, Unstable Balance “The world is not a tidy place,” said the American photographer Garry Winogrand. “It’s a mess. I never try to put it in order.” His photographs seem to exist in a kind of unstable equilibrium. It shifts and seethes within the frame, pushing at its edges. The…
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Paul Graham Visits the Garry Winogrand Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art : The New Yorker
Paul Graham at the Winogrand Retrospective via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/07/paul-graham-at-the-met-garry-winogrand-retrospective.html#slide_ss_0=1 a letter that one of Winogrand’s three wives had sent Winogrand. She complained that he hadn’t paid his taxes or allowed her to have a child because “all he wanted to do was take photographs and talk about his dreams.”
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A Visit to Garry Winogrand’s Retrospective
A Visit to Garry Winogrand’s Retrospective Garry Winogrand’s 25-year retrospective, currently on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., includes Winogrand’s iconic images of everyday Americans—New Yorkers out on the street, lone figures in busy airports, and eerie scenes of we via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/24/a-visit-to-garry-winogrands-retrospective/ I found myself skimming past many of the…
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In Garry Winogrand’s photos, an America of perpetual motion and bottomless hunger
Garry Winogrand at the National Gallery: A photographer who saw America like no one else did. A National Gallery exhibit shows a photographer breaking sharply with the “magazine humanism” of his day. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/in-garry-winogrands-photos-an-america-of-perpetual-motion-and-bottomless-hunger/2014/03/06/c96db872-a568-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html The photographs of Garry Winogrand, on view in a comprehensive retrospective of his career at the National Gallery of…
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Garry Winogrand in action
Juxtapoz Magazine – video: Garry Winogrand in action Garry Winnogrand’s contribution to street photography (he hates the term) is immeasurable and paramount. At the time of his death, he had 2,500… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/video-garry-winogrand-in-action Shot in the ‘70s, this video follows Winnogrand around Venice Beach as he takes photos and discuses his approach to photography