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Like Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) discovered the street as an exciting and creative territory for photography in the 1960s–inspired by the work of Walker Evans, who had already begun to photograph people in the streets in the thirties. In the workshops of the acclaimed art director of Harper’s Bazaar, Alexey Brodovitch, Winogrand was taught the principal rules of the modern street photographer: to trust your own perception rather than emulate a standardised style of composition, to approach a situation with your instinct rather than your knowledge, to work with natural light and to accept pictures that were slightly out of focus – rules that perfectly suited his own way of working. With an insatiable appetite for images, Winogrand spent his days in the bustling streets of New York, on the highways of the United States or at the parties of the upper crust. Always looking for unconventional portraits of personalities of the time or for pictures of confident young women in New York and Beverly Hills, which he put together in his celebrated series Women Are Beautiful.
His tireless energy, his nervous and restless obsession for photography, which drove him through the streets of New York, did not desert him when he was travelling. What did change, however, was his perspective. Winogrand no longer photographed as a pedestrian, but as a driver, a traveller (many shots were taken from his car window). He no longer worked in the crowded streets of Manhattan, but in the wide American landscape. Yet the resulting photographs were not fundamentally different: With remarkable dexterity, Winogrand’s skilled photographic eye caught countless moments in images. He created those characteristic photographs of people in public spaces, photographs, in which the boundaries between humour and melancholy, loneliness and sociability, beauty and ugliness seem to dissolve in an astounding way. Even thirty to forty years after they were first published, these images have lost nothing of their initial excitement, their enormous aesthetic and narrative potential and their freshness. Many of these images have now become classics of photography and documents of our recent history.
Born 1928 in New York, USA.
Died 1984 in Mexico.
He worked for several magazines, teached at the Parsons School of Design
and at the School of Visual Arts, New York.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
New York State Council of the Arts Grant
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Garry Winogrand: Man of the Crowd, San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA), San Diego, CA, USA
Women are Beautiful, San Telmo Museoa, Spain
Garry Winogrand, KBr Fundación MAPFRE photography center, Barcelona, Spain
Garry Winogrand. Color, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Garry Winogrand, Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain
Garry Winogrand. Women are Beautiful, Fotomuseum WestLicht, Vienna, Austria
Garry Winogrand, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Garry Winogrand, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Garry Winogrand, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Garry Winogrand, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Garry Winogrand in Europe, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Garry Winogrand. Circa 1969, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Garry Winogrand. Women are Beautiful, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Garry Winogrand. Women are Beautiful, Fundación Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
Garry Winogrand. Some Animals, P.S.1. Museum of Modern Art, New York
Garry Winogrand. Public Relations, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Garry Winogrand. The SIxties, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Garry Winogrand. Airports and Animals, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Winogrand 1964, Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (travelling exhibition)
Garry Winogrand, The Game of Photography, Instituto de America, Santa Fe, Granada (travelling exhibition in Spain)
Garry Winogrand. Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Garry Winogrand. The Man in the Crowd, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Garry Winogrand, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
Garry Winogrand, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
Garry Winogrand, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Garry Winogrand, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Garry Winogrand, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Garry Winogrand, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Garry Winogrand, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Garry Winogrand, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Garry Winogrand, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Garry Winogrand, Light Gallery, New York
Garry Winogrand, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
Garry Winogrand. Recent Works, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Texas
Garry Winogrand, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Garry Winogrand, Light Gallery, New York
Garry Winogrand, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Garry Winogrand, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Garry Winogrand Retospective, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
Garry Winogrand, Light Gallery, New York
Garry Winogrand, Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Garry Winogrand, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Garry Winogrand, Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Garry Winogrand, Cronin Gallery, Houston, Texas
Garry Winogrand, Grossmont College, El Cajon, California
Garry Winogrand, Light Gallery, New York
Garry Winogrand, Cronin Gallery, Houston, Texas
Garry Winogrand, Light Gallery, New York
Garry Winogrand, Light Gallery, New York
Garry Winogrand. The Animals, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Garry Winogrand. Twelve Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York (and other international venues)
Flags, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York, NY, USA
On The Volcano, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Interpreting America: Photographs From The Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina, USA
Picture Windows: Photographs From The Collection, Virginia Museum of Art, Virginia, USA
A Show of Affection. Collection Constellation 1, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Cities Are For People: Street Photography, 1945-1970, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Garry Winogrand: Women Are Beautiful, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, USA
Influence & Identity: Twentieth Century Portrait Photography from the Bank of America Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
60 Years of Collecting: An anniversary exhibition celebrating the UMCA Permanent Art Collection, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Umass Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Nicola Erni: A Personal View on High Fashion & Street Style, Notron Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
MOMAT Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
Resonances. Fundación MAPFRE Collections, KBr Photography Center, Barcelona, Spain
Sculpting Reality. Per Amor a l’Art Collection, PhotoEspaña 2022, Círculo de Bellas Artes & Casa de América, Madrid, Spain
American Photography, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Emotion and Structure, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
hape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
No Time, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, California
The Flâneur. From Impressionism to the Present, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Streetwise, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Doing the Document. Photographs from Diane Arbus to Piet Zwart. The Bartenbach Donation, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
The American Dream – American Realism 1945-2017, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany and Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands
Peter Lindbergh / Garry Winogrand: Women on Street, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany
Double Elephant 1973-74: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Two-Way Street, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Posing Beauty in African American Culture, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
The Family of Man, Clervaux Castle, Luxembourg
American Street – Seventy years of a photographic tradition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Of Walking, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
True Stories, Amerikanische Fotografie aus der Sammlung Moderne Kunst, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Permanent Collection Exhibition, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
On Horizons / Von Horizonten, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
In Focus: Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Hyper Real – Kunst und Amerika um 1970, Ludwig Forum, Aachen
15 Minutes of Fame: Portraits from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
They knew what they wanted, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Rip-Off: Between Appropriation, Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York
New York Street Photography, The New York Public Library, New York
Cruel and Tender: The Real in the 20th Century Photograph, Tate Modern, London, UK and Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
New Documents (with Diane Arbus & Lee Friedlander), Museum of Modern Art, NewYork
Five Unrelated Photographers, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Amon Carter Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Baltimore Museum of Art
Bank of America
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson
Chase Manhattan Bank
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Fort Worth Museum of Art
George Eastman House
Hallmark Cards Inc., Kansas City
Indiana University Art Museum
J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu
KMS Fine Art Group, Baar, Switzerland
Levi Strauss & Co.
Library of Congress
Madison Art Center, Wisconsin
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Seagrams Collection
Smithsonian Institution
Target Collection
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Nebraska
Victoria and Albert Museum, London , UK
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
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