Fantastic to see this news hit my inbox yesterday, that the first retrospective in nearly 25 years of Garry Winogrand’s work will open at SFMOMA on March 9th, 2013. The exhibition will then travel to DC, NYC, Paris & Madrid. Back when this site was active, there was plenty to say about Winogrand, and it’s … Continue reading New Winogrand Restrospective 2013-2015
Thanks to LPV for tweeting how Chuck Patch came across these three women from Winogrand’s 1964 World’s Fair photo a few weeks ago at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts! Chuck’s quote: My understanding (and I was trying not to disrupt the shoot/interview, which I clearly was) is that one of them spotted the picture … Continue reading Chuck Patch Discovers Winogrand’s 1964 Worlds’ Fair Women at Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Big thanks to Shane Deering for sending in this transcription of the Winogrand MIT mp3. Thanks, Shane! Garry Winogrand @ MIT 1974 This is a winter 2008 podcast from the UCR/CMP (University of California Riverside California Museum of Photography). The transcript is available on Google Docs.
This essay was written for the inaugural issue of PUBLICATION. Thanks to Nick Turpin, Tod Papageorge (Pace/Macgill), Eileen Hale & the Estate of Garry Winogrand (Fraenkel Gallery). There’s inherent risk in doing exactly what you want and doing it well. Garry Winogrand, whose photographic output said both “look at us” and “look at me look … Continue reading Reconsidering Winogrand
Tod Papageorge knows how to get out the word. Here’s Winogrand at MIT in 1974, with a link to download a friendly mp3. Big ups to anyone who wants to transcribe this so it’ll be available textually, too. Or is that on my plate? The real question this morning is What The Heck is in … Continue reading Winogrand in Vogue? (and the MIT mp3)
Yet another Winogrand video, recently posted (15 views), and this one’s an interview at the New School. The flickr hydra’s digging-up all the good links these days! (And there’s already a transcription, too.) You might enjoy the Joel Meyerowitz or Elliot Erwitt interview as well. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wem927v_kpo] More Winogrand & videos on 2point8. Thanks, Matt
I used to dig these up, now folks send in the links. (Thanks, Ian.) Discussion and transcription of the video over on flickr. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eitfGxc6vbw] More videos on 2point8.
Discovering that Paul McDonough is having a show @ Sasha Wolf (in NYC, opens Sept. 20th) provided one of those web zingers in which worlds I’d never considered together suddenly slam into each other and form a new whole. Big Bang! Paul McDonough @ Sasha Wolf In the mid-eighties, Paul McDonough was photographing at Ivar’s … Continue reading McDonough Waits (4WMN) at Ivar’s With Winogrand (mild nsfw)
O.C. Garza writes about his experience as a student of Garry Winogrand’s at UT Austin in the 70s. The pdf is called “Class Time with Garry Winogrand“. Here’s a bit: “When you are twenty years old and the photography instructor begins lecturing on form versus content, or that a photograph cannot tell a story, or … Continue reading Garza on Winogrand
Last night on the porch I read “Monkeys Make the Problem More Difficult: A Collective Interview with Garry Winogrand”. It’s from a book that’s been out of print for twenty-five years. Which means it’s probably a month or so away from landing itself in Google’s library scanning project, so I thought I’d speed things along, … Continue reading Garry Winogrand Interview
Thanks for your mail and comments about the Winogrand Video. I wanted to give a quick shout to Jim Arnold, the man who found the tape on eBay and digitized it to share with the rest of us. Jim’s photo site is here, and he’s hosting multiple versions (flash & ipod, even) of the Winogrand … Continue reading Winogrand Video Update
Update: Vimeo pulled the video. Here it is from Jim Arnold’s site (download multiple formats). Thanks, Jim! And there’s the transcript, below. Updated, again: Someone uploaded the original post I had here to youtube, so here you go. Part 1: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl4f-QFCUek] And Part 2: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zk1nkZ3-kE] Updated, with Transcript: I saw footage from this in a … Continue reading Garry Winogrand with Bill Moyers, 1982
The strangest thing that happened over the holidays was stumbling across an essay I wrote when I was nineteen on Garry Winogrand, titled “Unsettling Exhilaration at Winogrand’s ‘Cape Kennedy’.” (I also found a vintage Pac-Man pin in a drawer with my baseball card collection.) I had a semester of photographic interest in high school, and … Continue reading At Winogrand’s Cape Kennedy
Another quick note from my visit to the Winogrand archive last March. “* Sheet 7705: The Central Park streaker sequence. The first frames of the streaker are from far off, he’s obscured. W approaches, getting closer, taking frames as he goes. After getting close, he follows the guy around for awhile, and finally, after thirty-one … Continue reading Winogrand Sequence
When I was researching the Winogrand archives in Tucson this spring (1, 2, 3) I noticed there were many shots from the upstairs window of this apartment building. There was a street sign visible, which marked the intersection. If the sign has moved in the last 25 years (entirely possible), than this isn’t the building … Continue reading Winogrand Window
Just a few quick notes of interesting (unpublished) things I saw on contact sheets at the Winogrand archives. Sheets 2463-2440: approximately 1,242 frames from one airshow Sheets 2487-2488: great sequence of Muhammad Ali on Hollywood Boulevard, greeting strangers on the street, a young girl grabbing his hand and pulling him around Sheet 2494: 24 exhausting … Continue reading Assorted Notes, Winogrand Archive
Part of the mystery with an iconic photograph, especially a candid street photo, is wondering what happened before or after. I was able to track down a few of Winogrand’s more well-known shots, and I stumbled across others, while (carefully) plowing through contact sheets in his archives last week. I’ve already taken a look at … Continue reading Winogrand’s Sequences
Last week, I spent two full days doing research in the Garry Winogrand archives at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona. I went there for a few reasons, but mainly because I was interested in their holdings of Winogrand’s contact sheets. CCP has all 19,000 of them. I spent five hours a day … Continue reading Winogrand Archives
There’s a new bi-annual magazine dedicated to street photography, called PUBLICATION. Nick Turpin‘s brainchild, PUBLICATION features unbound photos, essays (and no ads!) and I’m looking forward to getting my hands on a copy. I wrote an essay about Garry Winogrand for the 1st issue. It’s not a typical essay, and in actuality it isn’t even … Continue reading PUBLICATION Launches
In January, I asked David Yee to send me this photo of his, which I’d seen and loved and immediately wanted to write about. I knew it was a kind of skeleton key that could illuminate something that had been bothering me – as both photographer, and writer. It wasn’t immediately clear what I wanted … Continue reading Street Photography’s Killing Me Softly, With Its Song (Part 1)
Garry Winogrand, 1950 Martin Munkasci, 1929
Tosh Matsumoto, up top, and Garry Winogrand, below. Interestingly, I think both pictures were taken around the same time, meaning, maybe the same decade. Matsumoto is part of the “Photographers of Japanese Descent” show at Howard Greenberg in NYC, which opens on March 14th. I’d link to the relevant info on their site, but the … Continue reading Same Same, But Different #5
There’s a great new show up here in Atlanta at the High Museum called “Street Life“. Work by Danny Lyon, Garry Winogrand, Susan Meiselas, and Dennis Carlyle Darling. I did a walk-thru the day it opened with Julian Cox, the High’s head curator of photography. There’s an mp3 (and more info) over on ACP Now!
In this week’s New Yorker, Anthony Lane examines Leica, and explores, in one sentence, an idea I’ve been batting around for a few years, that Garry Winogrand may have been the world’s first digital photographer. Garry Winogrand might have felt relieved to secure those thousands of images on a hard drive, rather than on frangible … Continue reading Lane on Leica
I’ve written a few reviews of photobooks here, but why not subscribe to a specialist’s feed? If you haven’t started reading 5B4, today would be a good day to start, because Jeff Ladd’s getting rid of a a few books. Where else can you find Winogrand’s 1964 for more than $300? Jeff’s is a fantastic … Continue reading Visit 5B4 Now
I wanted to thank everyone in London who turned out for a great evening of Belgian Ales and shop talk on the 4th. Who knew it would turn into a Leica M8 demo? It was great to meet you all, and I’m damn envious of the fact you live in what may be the world’s … Continue reading Notes from London Town
Sad to learn of the passing of John Swarkowski today, over pints in London with Hin Chua. I’m already missing my favorite writer on photography. If there’s anything that photography needs, it’s more people who can write with the passion, care and insight about the worlds found in photos that Swarkowski brought to his essays, … Continue reading The Shark
or “A Lesson In Putting It Out There” I’ve received a bunch of mail over the last year asking when the final installment of “Ways of Working” might appear, and I procrastinated because it seemed like the title, “Share”, said enough. Share your work with others; you might be surprised what happens when it’s out … Continue reading Ways of Working #10 (Share)
This could easily become another blog post about Jeff Wall, but I want to resist, for the children’s sake… Seriously, the thing I found most surprising about the NYTIMESMAG piece was how many times Wall mentioned Winogrand. (Two of four, total.) In hindsight, the connection’s clear – Wall’s as precise as Winogrand was intuitive, and … Continue reading Conceptual Street Photography
A quick post with links and items that have bubbled-up in email or here in the comments on 2point8 over the last few days. Richard Kalvar says there’s a forthcoming book (in the UK and US) and exhibition of his work, following on the heels of what’s currently showing in Paris. I look forward to … Continue reading Comments, Kalvar, PDFs, Peters, Koudelka-tube