Untitled
c. 1979, 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: 39.7 × 49.7 cm (15 5/8 × 19 9/16 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
2014.180.6
Art Historical Context
Garry Winogrand, a master of mid-20th-century American street photography, captured the raw energy of postwar urban life with his signature spontaneity and off-kilter compositions. This untitled gelatin silver print, made from a negative dating to around 1979, exemplifies late-career focus on the fleeting moments of American society. Winogrand, who shot prolifically until his death in 198, often left thousands of undeveloped rolls behind, making posthumous prints like this one window into his vast, unfiltered archive. Printed in 2012 using traditional gelatin silver processes— prized for thei...
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...