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Garry Winogrand

fotograaf

Amerikaans[1] geb. 14 januari 1928, New York City, US[1] overl. 19 maart 1984, Tijuana, Mexico[1] actief 1952–1984

Garry Winogrand (1928–1984) was een pionierende Amerikaanse straatfotograaf die bekend stond om zijn frenetische en ongefilterde documentatie van het Amerikaanse leven in het midden van de 20e eeuw. Geboren in de Bronx bij Joodse immigranten, studeerde hij schilderkunst aan het City College of New York en Columbia University voordat hij zich richtte op fotografie. In de jaren 50 en 60 werkte hij als freelance fotojournalist en reclamefotograaf, waarbij hij onder meer bijdroeg met beelden aan de tentoonstelling 'The Family of Man' (1955). Winogrand was een centrale figuur in de ontwikkeling van straatfotografie als houding en stijl, en beïnvloedde generaties fotografen met zijn kenmerkende kadrering. Hij ontving drie Guggenheim Fellowships en een National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Zijn belangrijkste monografieën zijn 'The Animals' (1969), 'Women are Beautiful' (1975) en 'Public Relations' (1977). Hij overleed in 1984 aan galblaaskanker terwijl hij op zoek was naar alternatieve behandeling in Mexico.[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35]

  • straatfotografie
  • Amerikaans leven
  • vrouwelijk lichaam

Garry Winogrand: The Restless Grammar of Postwar America

A sourced account of Garry Winogrand’s formation, street practice, landmark books and exhibitions, and the archive that makes his posthumous reputation an ongoing editorial question.

Garry Winogrand (1928–1984) made public spaces in postwar America look crowded, comic, and unsettled. The Library of Congress authority record establishes the authorized form of his name and his dates, while the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) gives his precise dates as 14 January 1928–19 March 1984 and identifies him as a photographer. (Library of Congress; CCP archive)

From painting to photography

Winogrand was born in the Bronx, served briefly in the U.S. Army as a weather forecaster, studied painting at City College in 1947–48 and Columbia University in 1948–51, and studied photography with Alexey Brodovitch at the New School for Social Research in 1951. He subsequently worked for agencies and magazines while making personal work. (International Center of Photography; CCP archive)

The mature photographs are candid observations of daily life, often made with a 35mm camera. ICP notes his visual puns and tilted exposures; CCP records his use of nontraditional camera angles and his rejection of the label “snapshot aesthetic.” Both sources preserve variations of his formulation that he photographed to see what the world—or the things that interested him—looked like in photographs. (International Center of Photography; CCP archive)

A new documentary attitude

Winogrand’s place in American photography was consolidated through a sequence of important exhibitions. ICP records his participation in Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man, Nathan Lyons’s Toward a Social Landscape, and John Szarkowski’s New Documents. MoMA dates New Documents to 28 February–7 May 1967 and names Winogrand alongside Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander. In Szarkowski’s account, the three redirected documentary photography toward personal ends: their aim was “not to reform life but to know it.” (International Center of Photography; MoMA, New Documents)

A later retrospective at SFMOMA described his postwar America as rich with possibility but close to spinning out of control. It also quotes guest curator Leo Rubinfien on the coexistence in the work of postwar hope and a sense of “undoing.” This formulation is useful because Winogrand’s humor and visual energy do not eliminate unease; they make it visible. (SFMOMA, Garry Winogrand)

Books and public occasions

CCP’s archive contains copies of four books published by Winogrand: The Animals, Women Are Beautiful, Public Relations, and Stock Photographs. Its biographical note says that The Animals (1969) collected photographs made at the Bronx Zoo and Coney Island Aquarium. (CCP archive)

Public Relations grew from Winogrand’s 1969 Guggenheim Fellowship proposal to photograph “the effect of media on events.” MoMA’s 1977 press release records that he worked on the project for several years, photographing marches, rallies, press conferences, games, strikes, demonstrations, parades, award ceremonies, dinners, museum openings, and other public occasions. The MoMA exhibition ran from 18 October to 11 December 1977, and the accompanying book—introduced by Tod Papageorge—had 112 pages and 74 photographs. (MoMA, Public Relations press release)

The linked publication records include The Animals, Women Are Beautiful, Public Relations, Stock Photographs: The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo, Winogrand: Figments from the Real World, and Arrivals and Departures: The Airport Pictures of Garry Winogrand. Several titles occur in more than one record, so their edition histories should be kept distinct rather than treated as a single generic publication.

Beyond New York and the unresolved archive

Although much of Winogrand’s best-known work was made in New York during the 1960s, he worked widely elsewhere. SFMOMA identifies California, Texas, Miami, and Chicago among the places he photographed; the National Gallery of Art’s 2014 retrospective divided the work between New York through 1971, journeys elsewhere in the same period, and a later phase including Texas and Southern California. (SFMOMA, Garry Winogrand; National Gallery of Art retrospective press release)

His posthumous archive remains central to the interpretation of the work. SFMOMA and the National Gallery reported roughly 250,000 frames left exposed but undeveloped or otherwise unedited at his death. CCP’s finding aid describes 420 boxes of photographic material, including negatives, contact sheets, slides, commercial work, posthumous prints, and study and work prints, as well as business, exhibition, printed, and moving-image material. (SFMOMA, Garry Winogrand; CCP archive)

The 2013–15 retrospective, organized by SFMOMA and the National Gallery of Art, traveled to Washington, New York, Paris, and Madrid. The accompanying 2013 catalogue, edited by Leo Rubinfien, has 464 pages and incorporates newly printed photographs alongside well-known work. (SFMOMA, Garry Winogrand; SFMOMA publication) That archival dimension makes a lasting editorial question unavoidable: the difference between exposing film and selecting an authored body of work.

Sources

Boeken

  1. Garry Winogrand Arrivals and Departures: The Airport Pictures of Garry 22
    Arrivals and Departures: The Airport Pictures of Garry
    Garry Winogrand
    € 156,00
  2. Garry Winogrand Public relations 18
    Public relations
    Garry Winogrand
    € 63,00
  3. Garry Winogrand Public Relations 1989
    Public Relations
    Garry Winogrand
    € 67,00
  4. Garry Winogrand Stock Photographs: The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo 21
    Stock Photographs: The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo
    Garry Winogrand
    € 56,00
  5. Garry Winogrand The animals 995
    The animals
    Garry Winogrand
    € 49,00
  6. Garry Winogrand Winogrand: Figments from the Real World 2253
    Winogrand: Figments from the Real World
    Garry Winogrand
    € 65,00
  7. Garry Winogrand Women Are Beautiful 20
    Women Are Beautiful
    Garry Winogrand
    € 223,00
  8. Garry Winogrand Women Are Beautiful 766
    Women Are Beautiful
    Garry Winogrand
    € 670,00

Werk van Garry Winogrand

  • 1969 The Animals Museum of Modern Art · boek · Engels · ISBN 9780870706332
  • 1975 Women are Beautiful Light Gallery; Farrar, Straus and Giroux · boek · Engels · ISBN 9780374513016
  • 1977 Public Relations Museum of Modern Art · boek · Engels · ISBN 9780870706325
  • 1980 Stock Photographs: The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo Olympic Marketing Corp · boek · Engels · ISBN 9780292724334
  • 1988 Figments from the Real World Museum of Modern Art · boek · Engels · ISBN 9780870706400
  • 1998 The Man in the Crowd: The Uneasy Streets of Garry Winogrand Fraenkel Gallery · boek · Engels · ISBN 9781881337058
  • 2001 El Juego de la Fotografía = The Game of Photography TF · boek · Engels, Spaans · ISBN 9788495183668
  • 2002 Winogrand 1964: Photographs from the Garry Winograd Archive, Center for Creative Photography, the University of Arizona Arena · boek · Engels · ISBN 9781892041623
  • 2004 Arrivals & Departures: The Airport Pictures of Garry Winogrand Distributed Art Publishers; Steidl · boek · Engels · ISBN 9783882438604
  • 2013 Garry Winogrand Yale University Press; Jeu De Paume; Flammarion; Fundación Mapfre · boek · Engels, Frans, Spaans · ISBN 978-0-300-19177-6
  • 2023 Winogrand Color Twin Palms · boek · Engels · ISBN 978-1-936611-18-8

Tentoonstellingen

  • 1969 The Animals Museum of Modern Art, New York · solo
  • 1975 Women are Beautiful Light Gallery, New York · solo
  • 1977 Public Relations Museum of Modern Art, New York · solo
  • 1979 The Rodeo Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago · solo
  • 1979 Greece Light Gallery, New York · solo
  • 1980 Garry Winogrand: Retrospective Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco · solo
  • 1983 Big Shots, Photographs of Celebrities, 1960–80 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco · solo
  • 1984 Garry Winogrand: A Celebration Light Gallery, New York · solo
  • 1984 Women are Beautiful Zabriskie Gallery, New York · solo
  • 1984 Recent Works Houston Center for Photography, Texas · solo
  • 1986 Twenty Seven Little Known Photographs by Garry Winogrand Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco · solo
  • 1988 Garry Winogrand Museum of Modern Art, New York · solo
  • 2001 Winogrand's Street Theater Rencontres d'Arles festival, Arles · solo
  • 2013 Garry Winogrand San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco · solo
  • 2014 Garry Winogrand National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. · solo
  • 2014 Garry Winogrand Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · solo
  • 2014 Garry Winogrand Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris · solo
  • 2019 Garry Winogrand: Color Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn · solo
  • 2024 Garry Winogrand: Man of the Crowd San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego · solo
  • 1955 The Family of Man Museum of Modern Art, New York · groep
  • 1957 Seventy Photographers Look at New York Museum of Modern Art, New York · groep
  • 1963 Photography '63 George Eastman House, Rochester · groep
  • 1964 The Photographer's Eye Museum of Modern Art, New York · groep
  • 1966 Toward a Social Landscape George Eastman House, Rochester · groep
  • 1967 New Documents Museum of Modern Art, New York · groep
  • 1970 The Descriptive Tradition: Seven Photographers Boston University, Massachusetts · groep
  • 1971 Seen in Passing Latent Image Gallery, Houston · groep
  • 1975 14 American Photographers Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland · groep
  • 1976 The Great American Rodeo Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas · groep
  • 1978 Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960 Museum of Modern Art, New York · groep
  • 1981 Garry Winogrand, Larry Clark and Arthur Tress G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles · groep
  • 1981 Bruce Davidson and Garry Winogrand Moderna Museet / Fotografiska, Stockholm · groep
  • 1980 Central Park Photographs: Lee Friedlander, Tod Papageorge and Garry Winogrand The Dairy in Central Park, New York · groep
  • 1983 Masters of the Street: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Josef Koudelka, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand University Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts · groep

Prijzen

  • 1964 Guggenheim Fellowship John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1969 Guggenheim Fellowship John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1979 Guggenheim Fellowship John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1975 Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts

Referenties

  1. Andy Grundberg. Garry Winogrand, Innovator in Photography. The New York Times. 1984 link
  2. The Animals. Museum of Modern Art. 1969 link
  3. Richard B. Woodward. Garry Winogrand and the Art of the Opening. The Paris Review. 2013 link
  4. Garry Winogrand. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation link
  5. Sean O'Hagan. Garry Winogrand: the restless genius who gave street photography attitude. The Guardian. 2014 link
  6. Sean O'Hagan. Why street photography is facing a moment of truth. The Observer. 2010 link
  7. Phil Coomes. The photographic legacy of Garry Winogrand. BBC News. 2013 link
  8. Andy Greaves. Andy Greaves Photography Blog – Gary Winogrand. 2010 link
  9. Michael Hoppen Gallery – Garry Winogrand link
  10. Edward Steichen et al.. The family of man. Museum of Modern Art. 1955 link
  11. Gerd Hurm et al.. The family of man revisited. I.B.Tauris. 2018 link
  12. Eric J Sandeen. Picturing an exhibition : the family of man and 1950s America. University of New Mexico Press. 1995 link
  13. Five Unrelated Photographers. Museum of Modern Art link
  14. Michael Peres. The Concise Focal Encyclopedia of Photography. CRC Press. 2014 link
  15. Nathan Lyons. Toward a Social Landscape. Horizon Press. 1966 link
  16. William Grimes. Nathan Lyons, Influential Photographer and Advocate of the Art, Dies at 86. The New York Times. 2016 link
  17. Garry Winogrand – Bio link
  18. Museum of Contemporary Photography. Garry Winogrand link
  19. Garry Winogrand. Public Relations. Museum of Modern Art. 1977 link
  20. Winogrand's Women Are Beautiful. Worcester Art Museum link
  21. O.C. Garza. Class Time with Garry Winogrand link
  22. Garry Winogrand. Artnet link
  23. American Suburb X – introduction to Garry Winogrand. 2010 link
  24. Stock Photographs: The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo. Olympic Marketing Corp. 1980 link
  25. Frank Van Riper. Washington Post
  26. Winogrand married his second wife, Judy Teller.
  27. Judith Teller. 1969
  28. 1972
  29. 1984
  30. 1984
  31. Garry Winogrand Archive. Center for Creative Photography link
  32. Garry Winogrand Archive. Center for Creative Photography link
  33. Leo Rubinfien. 2013
  34. Judith Teller. 1969
  35. Phil Coomes. The photographic legacy of Garry Winogrand. BBC News. 2013 link