Winogrand: Figments from the Real World - Softcover

Szarkowski, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870706403 ISBN 13: 9780870706400

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, 2003

Synopsis

Major monograph which was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Garry Winogrand" held at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1988. The best book on Garry Winogrand.

About this title

Synopsis:

John Szarkowski opens this comprehensive overview of Gary Winogrand with an eloquent and important essay on the photographer's life and work. He describes the development of Winogrand's pictorial strategies during his years as a photojournalist, the increasing complexity of his motifs as he pursued more personal goals, and the challenge posed for other photographers by the powerful and distinctive authority of Winogrand's best work, 'with its manic sense of a life balanced somewhere between animal high spirits and an apprehension of moral disaster.' A lavish plate section follows, presenting Winogrand's photographs thematically under the titles Eisenhower Years, The Street, Women, The Zoo, On the Road, The Sixties, Etc, The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo, Airport and Unfinished Work. Many of the 179 works are published here for the first time, and the final section, Unfinished Work, includes twenty-five pictures chosen from the enormous body of work that Winogrand left unedited at the time of his death in 1984.

About this edition

• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0870706403
• ISBN 13: 9780870706400
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260