GARRY WINOGRAND Women are Beautiful 1970

GARRY WINOGRAND. Untitled (from Women Are Beautiful), c. 1970. 8.9x13.1" gelatin silver print on 11x14" paper. Printed c. 1980. Signed and inscribed in pencil on print verso: Garry Winogrand 20/20 AP; inscribed in pencil: PF118279-111 / WAB 60.1.



Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) was an American street photographer, known for his portrayal of United States life and its social issues, in the mid-20th century. Photography curator, historian, and critic John Szarkowski called Winogrand the central photographer of his generation. He received three Guggenheim Fellowships to work on personal projects, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and published four books during his lifetime. He was one of three photographers featured in the influential
New Documents exhibition at Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1967 and had solo exhibitions there in 1969, 1977, and 1988. He supported himself by working as a freelance photojournalist and advertising photographer in the 1950s and 1960s, and taught photography in the 1970s. His photographs featured in photography magazines including
Popular Photography,
Eros,
Contemporary Photographer, and
Photography Annual.



Critic Sean O'Hagan wrote in 2014 that in "the 1960s and 70s, he defined street photography as an attitude as well as a style - and it has labored in his shadow ever since, so definitive are his photographs of New York." In 2010 O'Hagan wrote that though he photographed elsewhere, "Winogrand was essentially a New York photographer: frenetic, in-your-face, arty despite himself." Phil Coomes, writing for BBC News in 2013, said "For those of us interested in street photography there are a few names that stand out and one of those is Garry Winogrand, whose pictures of New York in the 1960s are a photographic lesson in every frame." In his lifetime, Winogrand published four monographs:
The Animals (1969),
Women are Beautiful (1975),
Public Relations (1977) and
Stock Photographs: The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo (1980).



In 2013 the San Francisco Museum of Art mounted a major retrospective exhibition including over 160 photographs Winogrand's work. The exhibition traveled to venues including the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; and Fundacion MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain.



Credit: https://www.moma.org/artists/6399