Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful
source: http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/garry-winogrand-women-are-beautiful/
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“Women are Beautiful” is a collection of photographs by Garry Winogrand (1928-1984), which is currently on exhibition in Barcelona at the Foundation Foto Colectania. Winogrand is considered to be one of the greatest innovators of twentieth-century American photography. Winogrand’s pictures are focused on the reflection of reality, with no retouching or other ideas added. Garry Winogrand represented a new American style in photography, which broke new ground in the emerging era of street photography.
Described as an undisciplined mixture of energy, ego, curiosity, ignorance, and street-smart naiveté, throughout the 1950s, the Bronx native photographed incessantly, mostly on the streets, working as a freelance photographer for a picture agency and eventually publishing journalistic images in numerous magazines. 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.
Winogrand eventually published four books of photographs, including “Women Are Beautiful” in 1975, which was composed mostly of candid shots of anonymous women on the street. He knew like no other photographer of his time how to capture the social transformation of females in the 1960s and 1970s through his portraits of women, which stand as an allegory of women’s emancipation and of their new roles in society.
This piece includes a number of stunning high-resolution black-and-white photographs, a remarkable photo-gallery and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/garry-winogrand-women-are-beautiful/
Described as an undisciplined mixture of energy, ego, curiosity, ignorance, and street-smart naiveté, throughout the 1950s, the Bronx native photographed incessantly, mostly on the streets, working as a freelance photographer for a picture agency and eventually publishing journalistic images in numerous magazines. 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.
Winogrand eventually published four books of photographs, including “Women Are Beautiful” in 1975, which was composed mostly of candid shots of anonymous women on the street. He knew like no other photographer of his time how to capture the social transformation of females in the 1960s and 1970s through his portraits of women, which stand as an allegory of women’s emancipation and of their new roles in society.
This piece includes a number of stunning high-resolution black-and-white photographs, a remarkable photo-gallery and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/garry-winogrand-women-are-beautiful/
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