Winogrand, Garry photographer. California made. The photographer has used a wide-angle lens, which captures in detail the people and much of their surroundings, and has further distorted the scene by tilting the camera. Three women look towards a man slumped in a wheelchair, a begging cup between his knees, and their momentary glance becomes the central activity of the image.
The position of the camera places the viewer at street level, giving a strong sense of immediacy to the scene. Gelatin-silver print. Street scene in which a group of three women, wearing mini-skirts, walk past a man in a wheelchair. Black and white photograph of US street scene in s.
Women in mini-skirts walking past man in wheelchair. Garry Winogrand was among a new generation of photographers who became active in the s. Initially, he had worked in photojournalism. There his work, and that of his contemporaries such as Dan Weiner and Diane Arbus, seemed very casual in comparison with work by established photojournalists. The images seemed to be lifted directly and spontaneously from the flow of real life.
By the s, partly due to the decline of photo magazines and also to his growing awareness of photographers such as Robert Frank, Winogrand increasingly orchestrated his subject matter into a larger, personal scheme. Art Gallery of Ontario, Purchase, David Goldblatt, At Mapetla, Soweto , Garfield Weston Foundation, Paul Kodjo, Untitled , s.
Gelatin silver print, 50 x 40 cm. Ian Wallace, Pan Am Scan detail , Gelatin silver print, 40 x Garry Winogrand, Los Angeles, California , View All Exhibitions. Two weeks later, Winogrand abandoned painting for photography and "never looked back. Around , after being shown a copy of Walker Evans's book American Photographs, Winogrand began to take a more artistic approach in his work.
The first half of the decade, however, was a difficult time, including political disillusionment and the breakup of his first marriage.
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