WINOGRAND RETROSPECTIVE:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) mounted a retrospective of Garry Winogrand’s work, which was on display March 9-June 2, 2013. After premiering at SFMOMA, the exhibition "Garry Winogrand" travelled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (March 2 through June 8, 2014) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (June 27 through September 21, 2014).   Venues also included: the Jeu de Paume, Paris (October 14, 2014 through January 25, 2015); and the Fundacion MAPFRE, Madrid (March 3 through May 10, 2015).

 

New York Times Review: For further information regarding the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, please refer to The New York Times review "No Moral, No Uplift, Just a Restless 'Click'"by Holland Cutter in the July 3, 2014 edition.

 

Biography:

Garry Winogrand (14 January 1928, NY 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.

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. -- wikipedia

 

BOOKS:

The Animals. 1969. Museum of Modern Art, NY.

Women are Beautiful. 1975. Light Gallery/Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Public Relations. 1977. Museum of Modern Art, NY

Stock Photographs: The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo. 1980. Olympic Marketing Corp.

The Man in the Crowd: The Uneasy Streets of Garry Winogrand. 1998. Fraenkel Gallery.

The Game of Photography. 2001. Tf Edition.

Winogrand 1964. 2002. Arena Editions.

Arrivals & Departures: The Airport Pictures of Garry Winogrand. 2002. Charles Rivers.

Figments from the Real World. 2003. Museum of Modern Art, NY.

 

SELECT 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, NY; "Garry Winogrand: A Celebration", Light Gallery, NY

1983. "Big Shots, Photographs of Celebrities, 1960-80", Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

1981 Light Gallery, NY; 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, NY; "The Rodeo", Alan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago

1977 The Cronin Gallery, Houston; Light Gallery, NY

1975. "Women are Beautiful", Light Gallery, NY

1972 Light Gallery, NY

1969 "The Animals", The Museum of Modern Art, NY

 

SELECT 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, NY

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, NY

1977 "Public Relations", The Museum of Modern Art, NY

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, MA

1969 "New Photography USA", Traveling exhibition prepared for the International Program of The Museum of Modern Art, NY

1967 "New Documents", The Museum of Modern Art, NY City with Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander, curated by John Szarkowski

1964 "The Photographer’s Eye", The Museum of Modern Art, NY

1963 "Photography ‘63", The George Eastman House of Photography, Rochester, NY

1957 "Seventy Photographers Look at NY", The Museum of Modern Art, NY

1955 "The Family of Man", The Museum of Modern Art, NY