Garry Winogrand - Photographer . Video.
Conocido por algunos como el fotógrafo de la calle, de la vida americana, sobre todo de la ciudad de Nueva York.
Es un fotógrafo muy valorado en USA que ven en él un testigo de su modo de vida
Garry Winogrand (1928 –1984), a New Yorker who roamed the United States
during the postwar decades, left behind a sweeping portrait of American
life. His photographs powerfully combine the hope and exhilaration as
well as the anxiety and turbulence that characterized America during
these vital years, revealing a country that glitters with possibility
but threatens to spin out of control. From Fifth Avenue to Sunset
Boulevard, from Cape Kennedy to the Texas State Fair, he made the
American middle class the primary subject of his pictures. Endlessly
curious, Winogrand scrutinized both cities and suburbs, always on the
lookout for those instants when happenstance and optics might join to
make a good picture that exposes some deep current in American culture.
Around 1960, after being shown a copy of Walker Evans's book American Photographs,
Winogrand began to take a more artistic approach in his work. The first
half of the decade, however, was a difficult time, including political
disillusionment and the breakup of his first marriage. He persevered in
his career and eventually published four books of photographs, including
The Animalsin 1969, images made in zoos, and Women Are Beautifulin
1975, candid shots of anonymous women on the street. Winogrand used a
small-format, 35mm camera that enabled him to photograph quickly and
freely, which he did to the extreme: at the time of his death in 1984,
he left more than 2,500 undeveloped rolls of film.