Miami Beach, Florida
1976, printed 2012
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 26.6 × 39.8 cm (10 1/2 × 15 11/16 in.) sheet: 39.8 × 49.9 cm (15 11/16 × 19 5/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Posthumous print made from original negative on the occasion of the Garry Winogrand exhibition organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Art, courtesy Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona; Gift of the Randi and Bob Fisher Fund
Accession Number
2014.180.7
Art Historical Context
Garry Winogrand, a master of American street photography and a key figure in the post-World War II "snapshot aesthetic," captured the vibrant chaos of everyday life with his Leica camera. *Miami Beach, Florida* (1976), made as a gelatin silver print in 2012, exemplifies signature style: candid, black-and-white images that freeze fleeting moments in public spaces. Shot on the sun-drenched shores of Miami Beach during theentennial year, this photograph likely pulses with the energy of leisure-seeking crowds, reflecting 1970s America's escapist beach culture amid economic shifts and social change...
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...