Garry Winogrand
1974
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portfolio of 15 gelatin silver prints
Dimensions
image/sheet (each): 21.43 × 32.7 cm (8 7/16 × 12 7/8 in.) mount (each): 37.47 × 47.63 cm (14 3/4 × 18 3/4 in.) closed (portfolio): 52.71 × 39.37 × 4.45 cm (20 3/4 × 15 1/2 × 1 3/4 in.) open (portfolio): 52.71 × 82.23 × 4.45 cm (20 3/4 × 32 3/8 × 1 3/4 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Lee and Maria Friedlander
Accession Number
2006.117.3.1-15
Art Historical Context
Garry Winogrand'sGarry Winogrand (1974) is a portfolio comprising 15 silver prints, each capturing the raw energy of American life. Housed in an elegant clamshell case that opens to showcase the mounted images—measuring about 8½ × 13 inches each—this collection exemplifies Winogrand's mastery of street photography. A key figure in postwar American photography, Winogrand roamed cities with his Leica, snapping candid moments that reveal the exuberance, awkwardness, and absurdity of mid-20th-century society. Gelatin silver prints, the medium here, were the gold standard for black-and-white photo...
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...