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  Masters of Photography: Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) was a photographer, born in New York City.
Garry Winogrand was influenced by Walker Evans and Robert Frank and their respective publications 'American Photographs' and 'The Americans'.
Winogrand was known for his portrayal of America in the early 1960s and his interest in social issues of the day and in the role of media in shaping attitudes.
www.masters-of-photography.com /W/winogrand/winogrand_articles1.html   (424 words)

  
 Garry Winogrand Online
Garry Winogrand at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Garry Winogrand in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Garry Winogrand at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Terra Foundation for the Arts, Chicago
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/winogrand_garry.html   (316 words)

  
 The photographers' gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Garry Winogrand did the absolute opposite: he spent most of his walking life hunting down his fellow citizens, watching, looking, and photographing: thousands upon thousands of photographs.
It includes conic Winogrand pictures such as Park Avenue, New York, 1959, in which a couple in a convertible cruise down Park Avenue accompanied by their pet monkey, as well as numerous images which have not been exhibited before.
Winogrand's photography defines an American decade, the 1960s, in a way comparable to Robert Frank in the 1950s and Walker Evans in the 1930s.
www.artmag.com /museums/a_greab/agblsps/agblspsc.html   (455 words)

  
 Garry Winogrand - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Garry Winogrand - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Winogrand, Garry (1928-1984), American photographer, known for his documentary photographs of American life.
Trudeau, Garry, born in 1948, American cartoonist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his strip “Doonesbury.” Trudeau was born in New York City and...
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  Fine Photography Books and Prints-Garry Winogrand, Airport Pictures
Winogrand's airport photographs were taken over a period of 25 years, with the first frame shot around 1958 and the last in 1983, just months before his death.
Winogrand was acutely sensitive to glances, gestures, and body language, and especially to the implicit eroticism of the camera's gaze.
Winogrand received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1964, which led him to photograph extensively in California and the American Southwest; another, in 1969, began a period of work concerned with the effect of the media on public events.
www.finephotobooks.com /New/pre_winogrand.htm   (453 words)

  
 Permanent Collection | Garry Winogrand
In his thirty years of photography, Winogrand captured a vibrant urban America, documenting the city and its denizens through innovative street photography.
Using a wide-angle lens, he photographed his subjects "from the hip," literally, often tilting the frame, creating a snapshot effect suggesting the immediacy and vivacity of the photographic moment.
Winogrand's Women are Beautiful series comprises 85 photographs, taken in the 1960s and 1970s, of women in public places.
www.kemperart.org /permanent/works/Winogrand_WorldsFair.asp   (91 words)

  
 Stuart Murdoch//Artist //photographer//Teacher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Winogrand gravitated toward dry humor and also stock types: the beauty queen, the sailor on leave, the politician working the crowd, the little boy wearing Mickey Mouse ears, the fl woman beside the white woman, each carefully missing the other's gaze.
Winogrand recognized these manifestations of a new America, with its familiar dreams of prosperity and leisure, and also all the gimcrackery that went along with it.
Winogrand was shooting not the sight of the assassination but what had become a new tourist destination: he captured how America, once again, transformed catastrophe into commerce, an inevitable but also strangely redemptive process.
www.stunik.com /faq/winnogrand.htm   (1078 words)

  
 Garry Winogrand at AllExperts
In 1966 Winogrand exhibited at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY with Lee Friedlander, Duane Michals, Bruce Davidson, and Danny Lyon in an exhibition entitled "Toward a Social Landscape".
Winogrand was known for his portrayal of America in the early 1960s andhis interest in social issues of the day and in the role of media in shapingattitudes.
Winogrand died of gall bladder cancer, in 1984 at age 56, leaving behind nearly 300,000 unedited images, as well as more than 2,500 undeveloped rolls of film.
en.allexperts.com /e/g/ga/garry_winogrand.htm   (705 words)

  
 Camera Works: Photo Essay (washingtonpost.com)
Winogrand applied for his grant in the early 60s, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, when nuclear war suddenly had become a terrifying possibility.
There is Winogrand the ironist in a stunning picture of a group of elderly VFW types, campaign hats on their heads, cigarettes dangling from their lips, on a street corner in Dallas, all but encircling an elderly and apparently legless mendicant – whom they do not seem even to see.
In fact, John Szarkowski has maintained that Winogrand's trademark tilt was a conscious consequence of his choice of a wide angle lens, and that the photographer subtly made at least some verticals in his picture "square with the frame" to keep the image from appearing haphazard or confusing.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/photo/essays/vanRiper/030131.htm   (1544 words)

  
 brian appel on gary winogrand's animals at pace macgill
Winogrand inherited his commitment to observation and an eye for the ability to discover the coherence and simultaneity of multiple actions and gestures from his early connection with late 30's radical journalism of the New York Photo League and his fifteen year stint as a photo journalist and advertising photographer.
In April of this year, 84 images comprising "Arrival and Departures - The Airport Pictures of Garry Winogrand", was posthumously published by the University of Arizona edited by Alex Harris and Lee Friedlander.
Along the way, Winogrand received a total of three Guggenheim grants, a National Endowment of the Arts Award, numerous exhibitions [ten of which have been at the Museum of Modern Art in New York], and published five limited edition portfolios.
www.artcritical.com /appel/BAWinogrand.htm   (983 words)

  
 Garry Winogrand
He documented the city and the urban landscape, concentrating on its unusual people and capturing odd juxtapositions of animate and inanimate objects.
Winogrand made the city, the zoo, the airport, and the rodeo his home, and spent endless hours photographing there.
For Women are Beautiful Winogrand photographed women on the streets of New York.
www.gallery51.com /html51/artists/garry_winogrand_iframe.htm   (208 words)

  
 Review of Winogrand - photo.net
Winogrand's own appreciation of women was enthusiastic and undemanding, and he naively assumed that the rest of the world, at least the rest of the male world, would be eager to buy a book of photographs of anonymous, fully-dressed women walking down the street.
Winogrand has given us a body of work that provides a new clue to what photography might become, a body of work that remains dense, troubling, unfinished, and profoundly challenging.
Winogrand remarked that the reason he photographed was to see what his subject matter looked like as photographs.
www.photo.net /photo/winogrand   (3382 words)

  
 Garry Winogrand (Getty Museum)
In 1948 a fellow student and photographer for Columbia University's student paper showed Garry Winogrand the darkroom, which was open twenty-four hours in the basement of the architecture building.
Two weeks later, Winogrand abandoned painting for photography and "never looked back." Described as "an undisciplined mixture of energy, ego, curiosity, ignorance, and street-smart naiveté," the Bronx native photographed incessantly, mostly on the streets, working as a freelance photographer for a picture agency and eventually publishing journalistic images in numerous magazines throughout the fifties.
Winogrand used a small-format, 35mm camera that enabled him to photograph quickly and freely, which he did to the extreme: at the time of his death in 1984, he left more than 2,500 undeveloped rolls of film.
www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1834&page=1   (208 words)

  
 Profotos - Garry Winogrand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Winogrand made the city, the zoo, the airport, and the rodeo his home, and spent endless hours photographing there.
Winogrand's photographs catch that odd moment where unrelated activities coincided, and it is the nature of these juxtapositions that sets his work apart from other photographers.
Winogrand might document a single small gesture or look, but the photograph makes that moment significant.
www.profotos.com /education/referencedesk/masters/masters/garrywinogrand/garrywinogrand.shtml   (799 words)

  
 "Garry Winogrand 1964": international center of photography, New York - Reviews ArtForum - Find Articles
Until now, Winogrand's color photographs have never been exhibited or published, and their effect here was nothing short of revelatory.
Winogrand's painterly eye for color and composition are uncannily in sync, and when pop-inflected signage figures in the equation, you'd swear it was by sleight of hand.
And while Winogrand rendered the country at the end of its innocence and still in mourning, his heightened sense of visual poetry and humor transforms "Garry Winogrand 1964" into one of the great road movies of all time.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_5_41/ai_96223234   (905 words)

  
 Legacy of Light
Although it has been said that Winogrand's ability to edit his tens of thousands of images superseded his talents as a photographer, his eye captured the comic, grotesque, and sometimes disturbing side of day-to-day human relations with a lightning speed and a voracious voyeurism that few photographers have matched.
Winogrand (born in New York City) studied painting at the City College of New York (1947-48) and Columbia University (1948-51).
Winogrand's unique vision caught the attention of John Szarkowski, director of the Museum of Modern Art's department of photography, who in 1977 organized a one-person exhibition of his work.
www.clemusart.com /exhibit/legacy/bios/bios-uz.html   (3141 words)

  
 Arrivals & Departures: The Airport Pictures of Garry Winogrand: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
If Garry Winogrand photographed everything, all the time, as he is famous for having done, his pictures of airports convey, despite their dated hair styles and clothing, the many still very familiar sights and spaces and sensations attached to air travel.
Winogrand's airport photographs were taken over a period of 25 years, with the first frame shot around 1958 and the last in 1983, just months before his death.
Winogrand received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1964, which led him to photograph extensively in California and the American Southwest; another, in 1969, began a period of work concerned with the effect of the media on public events.
www.halloween.com /halloween-books/free.php?in=us&asin=1891024477   (467 words)

  
 UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center - University Gallery -Helmut Newton / Garry Winogrand
Helmut Newton and Garry Winogrand: Two Portfolios presents a selection of photographs, chosen from the University Gallery’s permanent collection, by each of these renowned photographers to be on view from November 2 through December 13.
In comparison to the carefully staged compositions of Newton, Garry Winogrand became famous for a tilted-frame format that emphasizes the casual and open-ended character of his images.
Winogrand also began his career in the early 1950s as a stringer for a stock photographic agency and then quickly moved on to free-lance assignments for magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, Red Book, and Colliers.
www.umass.edu /fac/calendar/universitygallery/events/HelmutNewton.html   (770 words)

  
 ABG Sundal Collier
The photographs of Garry Winogrand presented urban American post-war society and social diversity, and portrayed a superpower which was at a cultural crossroads, becoming increasingly associated with consumerism and television.
Winogrand is generally credited with having established "street photography" as a genre, and with his much copied use of the wideangle lens and tilted picture-frame he exerted considerable influence over contemporary and later photographers.
Winogrand combined dramatic formalism with generous and at times palpable empathy for both his subject and his country.
www.abgsc.com /templates/gzArtistPage.aspx?id=203   (681 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Animals: Books: Garry Winogrand,John Szarkowski   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Animals is a classic photo book by the incessant, masterful photographer Garry Winogrand, reissued in a new edition by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, which first published the book in 1968.
In it, Winogrand leaves the streets of the city for the caged aisles of the real urban jungle, the zoo, where he captures some of the more humiliating and strange moments in the lives of God's creatures.
Winogrand has a good sense of humour and his time spent in the zoo with his kids was put to good use.
www.amazon.com /Animals-Garry-Winogrand/dp/0870706330   (863 words)

  
 Black and White World: A Photography Workshop With Garry Winogrand
It surprised me because Winogrand made no effort to hide the fact that he was standing in way, taking their pictures.
Winogrand was caught up with the energy of his subjects, and was constantly smiling or nodding at people as he shot.
Garry Winogrand died of cancer at age 56 in 1984 and left over 2,500 rolls of undeveloped film, 6,500 rollso fo processed film, 3,000 rolls of contact sheets that evidently hadn't been looked at--a total of 12,000 rolls, or 432,000 photos Winogrand took but never saw.
www.photogs.com /bwworld/xtol1.html   (1723 words)

  
 Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful
Winogrand primarily used a wide-angle lens on a 35-mm camera and available light to capture telling moments in a seemingly casual, "snapshot" manner.
The anonymous people depicted in Winogrand's photographs inhabit those places and participate in those events that define American urban history: they are seen on the street, in the park, at the zoo, in shopping malls, museums, political demonstrations, athletic events, and airports.
Winogrand's proof sheets make it clear that the photographer would often tilt his camera first one way and then the other, trying to find the configuration of facts that would best express the force of the energies that were his subjects.
www.tfaoi.com /aa/1aa/1aa542.htm   (609 words)

  
 Museum of Contemporary Photography: Garry Winogrand: 1964
Winogrand 1964, curated by Trudy Wilner Stack, and produced by the Center for Creative Photography, gives cohesive form to Garry Winogrand’s America in 185 photographs made in a single year, the majority previously unknown.
Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) was a native New Yorker whose photography of public life epitomized the indigenous pulse and social complexity of the urban scene after World War II.
In 1964, with the support of the first of three Guggenheim fellowships, he traveled for four months to fourteen states and recorded an America in transition, making some of his most famous photographs, many of which were shown in The Museum of Modern Art’s pivotal 1967 exhibition New Documents.
www.mocp.org /exhibitions/2003/07/garry_winogrand.php   (215 words)

  
 Leica M4 Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand's Leica M4 This camera is a one of a kind in the entire universe.
Winogrand had very strong feelings that her husband's camera should be continued to used after his death.
Before Winogrand's M4 was loaned to me to photograph, the present owner was actually walking around taking pics, mounting a 50/1 Noctilux.
www.cameraquest.com /LeicaM4G.htm   (262 words)

  
 The Early Modern Painter-Etcher | Smith College Museum of Art
The 45 works in the exhibition represents selections from Winogrand’s influential series Women are Beautiful, the title of a 1975 book featuring 84 photographs of women in a variety of situations and places in and around New York City.
In the end, the photographs are descriptions of poses or attitudes that give an idea, a hint, of their energies.” He goes on to say: “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.”
A pioneer of “street” photography in the 1960s, Winogrand became well known during the 1970s for his seemingly uncomposed and often surprising view of people in public settings.
www.smith.edu /artmuseum/exhibitions/garrywinogrand.htm   (174 words)

  
 Miradas » Blog Archive » GARRY WINOGRAND
Garry Winogrand est né à NewYork en 1928.
Winogrand garde en mémoire cette maxime et se forge sa propre approche.
Winogrand se dirige vers la publicité pour des raisons matérielles, ce qui ne lui permet pas d’en vivre très longtemps.
noravr.blog.lemonde.fr /2006/11/12/2006_09_garry_winogrand   (877 words)

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