| Dates: | 1928, 14 January - 1984, 19 March | | Born: | US, NY, New York | | Active: | US |
American photographer who documented New York street life with a snapshot fervor that was almost like an addiction. He produced five books during his lifetime but a prodigious body of work that requires deeper understanding. His life is frequently summed up by the dismissive statistics that he died leaving 2500 rolls of undeveloped film and a further 6500 rolls that were developed but had no contact sheets but that does not explain his significance in American photography. The 2013 retrospective organized by Leo Rubinfien for SFMOMA addressed his wider significance.
His archives are held by the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
Winogrand’s new brand of documentary photography — raw, spontaneous, inclusive, and irreverent — helped define the 1960s. The controlled turbulence of his images, with their ironic juxtapositions, grainy energy, and complex content, reveal a voracious curiosity and obsession with photography. Influenced by the American photographs of Walker Evans and Robert Frank, Winogrand wandered the streets with his hand held 35 mm Leica, moving in fast and close to shoot wide-angle views of people and places with tilted framing. He was championed by Szarkowski, Director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and had his first major exhibition there in 1963. His books, including The Animals (1969), Women Are Beautiful (1975), Public Relations (1977), and Stock Photographs: Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo (1980), only hint at his prolific output; at his untimely death from cancer he left thousands of undeveloped and unproofed rolls of film.
(Author: Garie Waltzer - Photographer and consultant)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
(Used with permission)
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.249 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.559-560
• Evans, Martin Marix (Executive ed.) 1995 Contemporary Photographers [Third Edition] (St. James Press - An International Thomson Publishing Company) [Expensive reference work but highly informative.]
• International Center of Photography 1999 Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection (New York: A Bulfinch Press Book) p.232 [Includes a well written short biography on Garry Winogrand with example plate(s) earlier in book.]
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.274 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.]
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