15 Big Shots
1983
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portfolio of 15 gelatin silver prints, with title page and table of contents on cream wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 51.5 x 41.5 x 2.3 cm (20 1/4 x 16 5/16 x 7/8 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2001.67.233-247
About the Artist
Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand, born on January 14, 1928, in New York City's Bronx to Jewish immigrant parents Abraham and Bertha, grew up in a working-class neighborhood alongside his sister Stella. After graduating high school in 1946 and serving in the U.S. Army Air Force as a weather forecaster, where he first took up photography, Winogrand pursued painting at City College of New York and Columbia University...