Garry Winogrand
Persondata |
Name |
Winogrand, Garry |
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Short description |
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Date of birth |
14 January 1928 |
Place of birth |
New York City |
Date of death |
19 March 1984 |
Place of death |
Tijuana, Mexico |
Garry Winogrand (14 January 1928, New York City – 19 March 1984, Tijuana, Mexico) was a street photographer known for his portrayal of America in the mid-20th century. John Szarkowski called him the central photographer of his generation.[1]
Winogrand was influenced by Walker Evans and Robert Frank and their respective publications American Photographs and The Americans. Henri Cartier-Bresson was another influence although stylistically different.
Winogrand was known for his portrayal of American life in the early 1960s. Many of his photographs depict the social issues of his time and in the role of media in shaping attitudes. He roamed the streets of New York with his 35mm Leica camera rapidly taking photographs using a prefocused wide angle lens. His pictures frequently appeared as if they were driven by the energy of the events he was witnessing.
Winogrand's photographs of the Bronx Zoo and the Coney Island Aquarium made up his first book The Animals (1969), a collection of pictures that observes the connections between humans and animals. His book Public Relations (1977) shows press conferences with deer-in-the-headlight writers and politicians, protesters beaten by cops, and museum parties frequented by the self-satisfied cultural glitterati. These photographs capture the evolution of a uniquely 20th and 21st century phenomenon, the event created to be documented. In Stock Photographs (1980), Winogrand published his views of the Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo.
At the time of his death there was discovered about 2,500 rolls of undeveloped film, 6,500 rolls of developed but not proofed exposures, and contact sheets made from about 3,000 rolls.[2] The Garry Winogrand Archive at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) comprises of over 20,000 fine and work prints, 20,000 contact sheets, 100,000 negatives and 30,500 35mm colour slides as well as a small group of Polaroid prints and several amateur motion picture films.[3]
Biography
Winogrand grew up in the then predominantly Jewish working-class area of the Bronx, New York, where his father, Abraham, was a leather worker, and his mother, Bertha, made neckties for piecemeal work.[4] [5]
Winogrand studied painting at City College of New York and painting and photography at Columbia University in New York City in 1948. He also attended a photojournalism class taught by Alexey Brodovich at The New School for Social Research in New York City in 1951.
In the early 1960s Winogrand photographed on the streets of New York City alongside Joel Meyerowitz, Lee Friedlander, Tod Papageorge and Diane Arbus.[6] [7]
In 1955 two of Winogrand’s photos appeared in The Family of Man exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. Winogrand's first one-man show was held at Image Gallery in New York City in 1959. His first notable appearance was in Five Unrelated Photographers in 1963, also at MoMA in New York City, along with Minor White, George Krause, Jerome Liebling and Ken Heyman. In 1966 Winogrand exhibited at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York with Lee Friedlander, Duane Michals, Bruce Davidson, and Danny Lyon in an exhibition entitled Toward a Social Landscape. In 1967 he participated in the New Documents show at MoMA in New York City with Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander, curated by John Szarkowski.[8]
John Szarkowski, the Director of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art, became an editor and reviewer of Winogrand's work. Szarkowski called him the central photographer of his generation.[9]
In 1964 Winogrand was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship Award to travel through America. Some of the results of this work were shown in the New Documents exhibition. He was awarded his second Guggenheim Fellowship in 1969 to continue exploring media events and their effect on the public. Between 1969 and 1976 Winogrand shot about 700 rolls of film at public events, producing 6,500 eleven by fourteen inch prints for Tod Papageorge to select for the exhibition and book Public Relations. Winogrand received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1975. In 1979 with his third Guggenheim Fellowship he moved to Los Angeles to document California.[10] [11] [12] While in LA he developed 8522 rolls of film.
Winogrand worked as a commercial photographer between 1952 and 1954 at the Pix Photo Agency in Manhattan and from 1954 at Brackman Associates.[13]
Between 1971 and 1972 Winogrand taught photography at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago[14] and between 1973 and 1978 at the University of Texas in Austin.[15] [16]
In 1952 Winogrand married Adrienne Lebow, separating in 1963 and divorcing in 1966, they had two children, Laurie and Ethan. Around 1967 Winogrand married his second wife Judy Teller, they were together until 1969. In 1972 he married Eileen Adele Hale, with whom he had a daughter, Melissa.[17]
Winogrand died of gall bladder cancer, in 1984 at age 56. As evidence of his prolific nature, Winogrand left behind nearly 300,000 unedited images. Some of these images have been exhibited posthumously, and published by MoMA in the overview of his work Winogrand, Figments from the Real World.
Quotations by Garry Winogrand
- "A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space."
- "Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed."
- "I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs."
- "I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both."
- "I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs." (In reference to his book, "Women Are Beautiful.")
- "All things are photographable."
- "I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions." [18]
Books
- The Animals. 1969. Museum of Modern Art, New York. ISBN 0-37451-301-5
- Women are Beautiful. 1975. Light Gallery / Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ISBN 0-87070-633-0
- Public Relations. 1977. Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Stock Photographs: The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo. 1980. Olympic Marketing Corp. ISBN 0-292724-33-0
- The Man in the Crowd: The Uneasy Streets of Garry Winogrand. 1998. Fraenkel Gallery. ISBN 1-881337-05-7
- The Game of Photography. 2001. Tf Edition. ISBN 8-49518-366-8
- Winogrand 1964. 2002. Arena Editions. ISBN 0-374513-01-5
- Arrivals & Departures: The Airport Pictures of Garry Winogrand. 2002. Charles Rivers. ISBN 1-891024-47-7
- Figments from the Real World. 2003. Museum of Modern Art, New York. ISBN 0-87070-635-7
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 1986. "Little-known Photographs by Garry Winogrand", Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
- 1985. Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
- 1984
- "Recent Works", Houston Center for Photography, Texas
- "Women are Beautiful", Zabriskie Gallery, New York
- "Garry Winogrand: A Celebration", Light Gallery, New York
- 1983. "Big Shots, Photographs of Celebrities, 1960-80", Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
- 1981
- Light Gallery, New York
- The Burton Gallery of Photographic Art, Toronto
- 1980
- Galerie de Photographie, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
- "Garry Winogrand: Retrospective", Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco,
- University of Colorado, Boulder
- 1979
- "Greece", Light Gallery, New York
- "The Rodeo", Alan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
- 1977
- The Cronin Gallery, Houston
- Light Gallery, New York
- 1975. "Women are Beautiful", Light Gallery, New York
- 1972. Light Gallery, New York
- 1969. "The Animals", The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 1983. "Masters of the Street: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Josef Koudelka, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand", University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- 1981
- "Central Park Photographs: Lee Friedlander, Tod Papageorge and Garry Winogrand", The Dairy in Central Park, New York, 1980
- "Bruce Davidson and Garry Winogrand", Moderna Museet / Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
- "Garry Winogrand, Larry Clark and Arthur Tress", G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles
- 1978. "Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960", The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1977. "Public Relations", The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1976. "The Great American Rodeo", The Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas
- 1975. "14 American Photographers", The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
- 1971. "Seen in Passing", Latent Image Gallery, Houston
- 1970. "The Descriptive Tradition: Seven Photographers", Boston University, Massachusetts
- 1969. "New Photography USA", Traveling exhibition prepared for the International Program of The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1964. "The Photographer’s Eye", The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1963. "Photography ‘63", The George Eastman House of Photography, Rochester, New York
- 1957. "Seventy Photographers Look at New York", The Museum of Modern Art, New York
References
- ^ Visions and Images: Garry Winogrand, 1981. Interview with Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl4f-QFCUek. Retrieved 2011-11-28. "John Szarkowski called you the central photographer of your generation.".
- ^ Andy Greaves. "Andy Greaves Photography Blog - Gary Winogrand". http://andygreaves.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/gary-winogrand/. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
- ^ michaeldavidmurphy. "Winogrand Archives". http://2point8.whileseated.org/2006/03/05/winogrand-archives/. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
- ^ "Michael Hoppen Gallery - Garry Winogrand". http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artist,show,1,92,0,0,0,0,0,0,garry_winogrand.html. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
- ^ Andy Greaves. "Andy Greaves Photography Blog - Gary Winogrand". http://andygreaves.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/gary-winogrand/. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
- ^ "On The Road". http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/profile/1731201/on-the-road. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
- ^ Nick Turpin. "Falling For The Street". http://www.nickturpin.com/words/falling-for-the-street/. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
- ^ "Garry Winogrand - Bio". http://kopeikingallery.com/artists/view/garry-winogrand. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
- ^ Visions and Images: Garry Winogrand, 1981. Interview with Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl4f-QFCUek. Retrieved 2011-11-28. "John Szarkowski called you the central photographer of your generation.".
- ^ Andy Greaves. "Andy Greaves Photography Blog - Gary Winogrand". http://andygreaves.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/gary-winogrand/. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
- ^ "artnet - Garry Winogrand biography". http://www.artnet.com/artists/garry-winogrand/. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
- ^ "American Suburb X - introduction to Garry Winogrand for 'Streetwise – A Look at Garry Winogrand' article". http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/02/asx-tv-streetwise-a-look-at-garry-winogrand.html. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
- ^ Andy Greaves. "Andy Greaves Photography Blog - Gary Winogrand". http://andygreaves.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/gary-winogrand/. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
- ^ Andy Greaves. "Andy Greaves Photography Blog - Gary Winogrand". http://andygreaves.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/gary-winogrand/. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
- ^ O.C. Garza. "Class Time with Garry Winogrand" (PDF). http://www.ocgarzaphotography.com/documents/ClassTimewithGarryWinograndfinal3.pdf. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
- ^ Andy Greaves. "Andy Greaves Photography Blog - Gary Winogrand". http://andygreaves.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/gary-winogrand/. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
- ^ Winogrand, Garry; John Szarkowski (2003). figments from the real world. Museum of Modern Art, New York. ISBN 0-87070-635-7. http://www.igorsmirnoff.com/_talk/00000029.htm. "Winogrand and Judy Teller were separated in 1969, and their marriage was annulled the next year. Late in 1969 he had met Eileen Adele Hale; they married in 1972"
- ^ Masters of Photography
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Persondata |
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Winogrand, Garry |
Alternative names |
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Short description |
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Date of birth |
14 January 1928 |
Place of birth |
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Date of death |
19 March 1984 |
Place of death |
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