Norman Mailer, 50th Birthday Party, New York City
1973, printed 1983
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 31.3 x 47 cm (12 5/16 x 18 1/2 in.) sheet: 40.5 x 50.6 cm (15 15/16 x 19 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2001.67.238
Art Historical Context
Step into the electric buzz of 1970s New York with Garry Winogrand's *Norman Mailer, 50th Birthday, New York City* (1973, printed 1983). gelatin silver print immortalizes the novelist and provocateur Norman Mailer amid the revelry of his milestone. Winogrand, a titan of street photography and a key figure in the New York School wielded his camera like a fly-on-the-wall observer, freezing candid moments of American exuberance and chaos. Captured during a decade of cultural ferment—think post-counterculture grit, literary feuds, and urban glamour—Winogrand's lens dissects the social whirl. Mail...
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...