Tag: Garry Winogrand
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TIME Picks the Photobooks We Loved in 2013
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/11/25/time-picks-the-best-photobooks-of-2013/#1 This year’s offerings range from enormous, luxe tomes like Garry Winogrand to smaller, more intimate works like The Pigs. Overall the selection confirms — in a heartening way, for all of us — that even as unwieldy maelstroms of information emerge from…
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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… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2013/05/book-review-garry-winogrand.html 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…
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Garry Winogrand, Who Retreated from Editing
Garry Winogrand – Nonstop and Unedited Mr. Winogrand was so prolific that he could hardly be bothered to edit his work. A new retrospective explores the relentless output of a complicated artist. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/garry-winogrands-nonstop-and-unedited/ New York’s photographic community was small enough in the 1970s that you could spot Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander…
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Garry Winogrand’s Tumblr
Garry’s Tumblr Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2013/03/garrystumblr.html When photographer Marie-Laure de Decker asked her former agency to return 770 of her images, little did she know that she would be fined €10,000 for wasting the agency’s time. Olivier Laurent speaks with both parties
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An American Epic: The Work of Garry Winogrand
Link: An American Epic: The Work of Garry Winogrand – LightBox And yet if Winogrand authored a modern epic, what is equally striking was his acknowledgment of the limits of photography throughout his career. As a documentarian of the everyday, he believed his pictures were mere windows into a moment, at best a surface level…
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More thoughts on Winogrand
Link: More thoughts on Winogrand | B The rush is on. Spurred by the SFMoMA retrospective, several articles about Winogrand have appeared recently, some in relatively unlikely places. For example, I don’t recall Mother Jones or Harper’s taking much of an interest in street photography before now, not to mention Huffington Post. What’s next? Time? People? I’m guessing…
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GARRY WINOGRAND: “Standing on the Corner – Reflections Upon Garry Winogrand’s Photographic Gaze – Mirror of Self or World? Pt. I” (1991)
“Standing on the Corner – Reflections Upon Garry Winogrand’s Photographic Gaze – Mirror of Self or World? Pt. I” (1991) New Mexico, 1957 (Figure 13) Part I By Carl Chiarenza Originally Published in IMAGE Magazine: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Volume 34, Number 3–4,…
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GARRY WINOGRAND: "Class Time with Garry Winogrand" (1974 – 1976)
Class Time with Garry Winogrand (1974 – 1976) By O.C. Garza The years were 1974, 1975 and 1976. Step back to those years in what was the active, peaceful city of Austin, Texas. The city is nestled hard against the banks of the Colorado River that knives through central Texas. This state govern via…
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The Winogrand Problem" (1988)
The Garry Winogrand Problem (1988) Shooting inordinate amounts of film, Winogrand charted a vast, freebooting odyssey through three-and-a-half decades of American culture. Garry Winogrand: . . . ‘I forgot what year when Robert Frank’s book came out. He was working pretty much ar via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/03/garry-winogrand-i-dont-give-rap-about.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29 Modern photography, by reason of unceasing technical…
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Standing on the Corner – Reflections Upon Garry Winogrand's Photographic Gaze – Mirror of Self or World? Part II" (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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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Garry Winogrand – Differing Perspectives"
The work of Garry Winogrand remains highly controversial. Biographical detail is widely available elsewhere but this piece assesses the key challenges. Link: AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Garry Winogrand – Differing Perspectives”
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AMERICANSUBURB X: "Coffee and Workprints: A Workshop With Garry Winogrand (1988)"
Coffee and Workprints – A Workshop With Garry Winogrand (1988) “The director confided that Winogrand doesn’t make learning easy; be patient, he urged, it’s worth it. If we weren’t satisfied by the weekend, he’d give us a refund.” Coffee and Workprints: A Workshop With Garry Winogrand – Two Weeks with a Master o via AMERICAN…
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "The Animals and Their Keepers: Garry Winogrand and Photography After September 11th"
“The Animals,” a book I was moved to reexamine after the events of Sept. 11, 2001, is the deliberately literal-sounding title of photographer Garry Winogrand’s first book of photographs, which was published in 1969, some 20 years after the artist embarked on his life’s work that of becoming the Theodore Dreiser of the lens. Winogrand…
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The Year in Pictures: Garry Winogrand – Part 1
I also came across this uncredited biography of Winogrand on the Temple University website. I thought it was worth copying whole, but if you have to skim, don’t miss out on John Szarkowki’s final quote. As always, he said it better than anyone. Check it out here.