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Garry WinograndAmerican Photographer · 1928–1984
All works by this person →In 1948 a fellow student and photographer for Columbia University's student paper showed Garry Winogrand the darkroom, which was open twenty-four hours in the basement of the architecture building. Two weeks later, Winogrand abandoned painting for photography and "never looked back." Described as "an undisciplined mixture of energy, ego, curiosity, ignorance, and street-smart naiveté," the Bronx n
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- 1964
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Most of Winogrand's best pictures-let us say all of his best pictures-involve luck of a different order than that kind of minimal, survivor's luck on which any human achievement depends. -John Szarkowski in *Winogrand: Figments from the Real World* Call it luck, call it circumstance, but when Garry Winogrand set out to photograph, his colleagues observed that surprising things would happen. Winogrand noticed this odd couple in a parked convertible one night as he wandered Hollywood's Sunset Strip. The man with the bandaged nose glances at his angry-looking female passenger. She seems to be ignoring him. The blurred motion of cars rushing past them underscores how fleeting this moment is. Winogrand's photograph captures Hollywood's unique combination of glamour and seediness. It specifically calls to mind the dark narratives of film noir-the detective movies of the 1940s and '50s that featured tough guys and femmes fatales. The narrative here is ambiguous, prompting questions as to why this man's nose is bandaged and whether the couple is arguing.
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