Los Angeles, California
1969, printed 1974
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 21.7 x 32.7 cm (8 9/16 x 12 7/8 in.) mount: 37.5 x 50.2 cm (14 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Collectors Committee
Accession Number
1999.137.11
Art Historical Context
Garry Winogrand's *Los Angeles, California*1969, printed 1974) captures the vibrant, restless energy of late-1960s America through the lens of one of the era's most prolific street photographers. Winogrand, a key figure in post-World War II American photography alongside contemporaries like Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander, roamed cities with his Leica camera, snapping candid moments that revealed the social pulse of urban life. Shot in Los Angeles amid cultural upheavals—the counterculture boom, civil rights struggles, and the shadow of Vietnam—this gelatin silver print reflects his fascinatio...
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...