Winogrand: Figments from the real world (Springs Industries series on the art of photography) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870706403 ISBN 13: 9780870706400

Publisher: Distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1988

Synopsis

Major monograph which was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Garry Winogrand" held at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1988. The best book on Garry Winogrand.

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Director of photographic exhibitions for New York's Museum of Modern Art, Szarkowski in this companion volume to a show traveling nationwide celebrates a camera artist whose pictures for decades elevated the mundane in American life to a distinctive, almost ethereal stature. Random-looking, even disorderly at times, Winogrand's images, his humanistic "figments" of reality, catch the eye in a detached, virtually trance-like mood: a blonde female flight attendant carrying a black child; a couple in a tentative sidewalk embrace seen over the shoulder of a distressed pedestrian; a Maine family trio inexplicably sad and perhaps angry; and the cover shot, a diapered toddler emerging from a dark garage interior toward an over-turned kiddie car in a brooding desert scene. Winogrand (1928-1984), in an era of ferment for artistic photography, produced as many as a half-million film images, many of which are published here for the first time.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

In a manner variously described as manic, compulsive, and voyeuristic, Garry Winogrand produced hundreds of thousands of black-and-white snapshots, street photographs of ordinary people and situations rich in gesture and body language. Szarkowski, director of MOMA's photography department, cultivated Winogrand and, after his death in 1984, was left with the task of editing 6500 rolls of unprinted (and 2500 rolls of undeveloped) 35mm negatives (about 300,000 unedited images altogether). Nine stages of Winogrand's work are presented chronologically here and in a traveling exhibition, along with a sizable selection of "unfinished" later work described by Szarkowski as "deeply flawed" and "pointless." The uninitiated might see much of the earlier work the same way. Kathleen Collins, Library of Congress
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Distributed by New York Graphic Society
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870706403
• ISBN 13: 9780870706400
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260