Garry Winogrand, artist and art
Born 1928, Birth New York City, USA.
Died 1984
I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
In the early 1970s, John Szarkowski (curator of photography at The Museum of Modern Art at the time) selected eighty-five images featuring women from hundreds of photographs by Garry Winogrand. The resulting book, Women are Beautiful (1975), offers a random collection of women caught on the street, in parks, getting into cars, at parties, marching in parades, skinny-dipping in ponds. Is it the elucidation of an attraction, of style, of activity, or of gender in an era of transition? “Whenever I’ve seen an attractive woman, I’ve done my best to photograph her,” says Winogrand in the forward to the book…
Women by a Swimming Pool, 1960s
Foto museum Winterthur
18 Works online, sfmoma
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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