Garry winogrand

A blockbuster retrospective exhibition that revealed hundreds of photos (many never-before-seen), hand-marked contact sheets, letters—in short, a rare glimpse into the mind of a master.

Emphasizing drama and depth, the Renaissance techniques of Chiaroscuro, Tenebrism, and Sfumato allowed artists like Caravaggio, Leonardo da Vinci, and Rembrandt to illuminate visual narratives out from the shadows.

Garry Winogrand was one of the last great street photojournalists. He was a populist photographer, a real egalitarian, and his photographs of people on the street show that any face can be interesting. Yet in a way his style is difficult, because the world he depicts is often so quotidian that you yourself wouldn’t stop to look at it. In his photographs of the street, the suburbs, airports, the rodeo, he shows a piece of American life where, to his credit, there’s no desire to be aesthetic…

Two of the women in Garry Winogrand’s 1964 photograph “World’s Fair, New York City” recollect that summer afternoon.

Garry Winogrand. Aquarena Springs, San Marcos, Texas. 1964. Gelatin silver print. 8 7/8 × 13 3/8" (22.5 × 34 cm). Purchase and gift of Barbara Schwartz in memory of Eugene M. Schwartz. 460.1998. © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery. Photography

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Garry Winogrand. Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles. 1969.

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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 photographer made during his life, Dyer analyzes each one in jaunty riffs that are longer than extended captions but shorter than fully-formed essays. The structure suits Dyer’s talents perfectly.