The first retrospective in
twenty-five years of work by Garry Winogrand (1928–1984)—the renowned
photographer of New York City and of American life from the 1950s through the
early 1980s—this exhibition brings together more than 175 of the artist's most
iconic images, a trove of unseen prints, and even Winogrand's famed series of
photos made at the Metropolitan Museum in 1969 when the Museum celebrated its
centennial. It offers a rigorous overview of Winogrand's complete working life
and reveals for the first time the full sweep of his career.
Born in the Bronx, Winogrand
did much of his best-known work in Manhattan during the 1960s, and in both the
content of his photographs and his artistic style he became one of the
principal voices of that eruptive decade. Known primarily as a street
photographer, Winogrand, who is often associated with famed contemporaries
Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander, photographed with dazzling energy and
incessant appetite, exposing some twenty thousand rolls of film in his short
lifetime. He photographed business moguls, everyday women on the street, famous
actors and athletes, hippies, politicians, soldiers, animals in zoos, rodeos,
car culture, airports, and antiwar demonstrators and the construction workers
who beat them bloody in view of the unmoved police. Daily life in postwar
America—rich with new possibility and yet equally anxious, threatening to spin
out of control—seemed to unfold for him in a continuous stream.
While Winogrand is widely
considered one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century, his
overall body of work and influence on the field remain incompletely explored.
He was enormously prolific but largely postponed the editing and printing of
his work. The act of taking pictures was far more fulfilling to Winogrand than
making prints or editing for books and exhibitions; he often allowed others to
perform these tasks for him. Dying suddenly at the age of 56, he left behind
proof sheets from his earlier years that he had marked but never printed, as
well as approximately 6,600 rolls of film (some 250,000 images) that he had
never seen, more than one-third of which he had never developed at all; these
rolls of film were developed after his death.
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