Garry Winogrand

Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) was born in New York City. He was a proponent and practitioner of street photography. During his career he received three Guggenheim Fellowship Awards (1964, 1969, and 1979)and an National Endowment of the Arts Award in 1979. He made his first notable appearance in 1963 at an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City. This show included Minor White, George Krause, Jerome Liebling and Ken Heyman. In 1966 Winogrand exhibited at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY with Lee Friedlander, Duane Michals, Bruce Davidson, and Danny Lyon in an exhibition entitled "Toward a Social Landscape". In 1967 he participated in a show called "New Documents"at MOMA with Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander.

Quotes

"I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs"

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"I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for

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the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the

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subject, by describing as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both."

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"I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs." (in re: his book, "Women are Beautiful")

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"There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described."

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"I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions." http://www.masters-of-photography.com/A/adams/adams_articles2.html

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