Garry winogrand

Catching up with two subjects from a 1964 Garry Winogrand photograph—that one, up there—fifty years later: “I never saw a photographer, or anyone taking our picture. It was not like today, when people are taking pictures every minute. We were just a bunch of girls out having fun. Why would anyone take our picture?” Whither […]

A blockbuster retrospective exhibition that revealed hundreds of photos (many never-before-seen), hand-marked contact sheets, letters—in short, a rare glimpse into the mind of a master.

Emphasizing drama and depth, the Renaissance techniques of Chiaroscuro, Tenebrism, and Sfumato allowed artists like Caravaggio, Leonardo da Vinci, and Rembrandt to illuminate visual narratives out from the shadows.

Garry Winogrand was one of the last great street photojournalists. He was a populist photographer, a real egalitarian, and his photographs of people on the street show that any face can be interesting. Yet in a way his style is difficult, because the world he depicts is often so quotidian that you yourself wouldn’t stop to look at it. In his photographs of the street, the suburbs, airports, the rodeo, he shows a piece of American life where, to his credit, there’s no desire to be aesthetic…

Garry Winogrand. Aquarena Springs, San Marcos, Texas. 1964. Gelatin silver print. 8 7/8 × 13 3/8" (22.5 × 34 cm). Purchase and gift of Barbara Schwartz in memory of Eugene M. Schwartz. 460.1998. © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery. Photography

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Garry Winogrand," March 9–June 2, 2013.National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. "Garry Winogrand," March 2–June 8, 2014.The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Garry Winogrand. Untitled from Women are Beautiful. 1969. Gelatin silver print. 13 1/16 × 8 3/4" (33.1 × 22.2 cm). Purchase and gift of Barbara Schwartz in memory of Eugene M. Schwartz. 826.2007. © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery. Photography

A selection of pictures by photographer Elliott Erwitt to mark his 85th birthday.

Garry Winogrand. Untitled from Women are Beautiful. c. 1972. Gelatin silver print. 8 11/16 × 13 1/16" (22.1 × 33.1 cm). Purchase and gift of Barbara Schwartz in memory of Eugene M. Schwartz. 846.2007. © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery. Photography