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=Garry Winogrand Photography= ==Garry Winogrand was born in New York City in 1928 and died in 1984. Winogrand was a photographer who used the city as his focus. He spent most of his life hunting down his fellow citizens, watching, looking, and photographing; thousands upon thousands of photographs. He also made pictures at museum openings, at the zoo, at airports and rodeos, but it was the streets of Manhatten which provided the central metaphor of his work. ==
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==Winogrand's photography defined the city of New York in the 1960s. He was large, energetic, voyeuristic, and obsessively curious about the world around him which made him a successful street photographer. The formal turbulence of his images with their dynamic tilted viewpoints, their grainy immediacy, their frenetic crowds and their temporarily isolated strangers, matches the political turbulence of the Vietnam years and provided a defining portrait of a society caught in motion. Influenced by Robert Frank, Winogrand used a wide angle lens with a handheld camera and shot from an intimate distance. This enabled him to incorporate more of his subjects, and gave his images an unfamiliar, compositional complexity. The medium of still photography he described as "the illusion of a literal description of how a camera saw a piece of time and space". His work depics the broad canvas of American society, with its diverse classes, creeds and races jostling on the street. One of Winogrands famous exhibitions was at the Museum of Modern Art in 1963. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Photography three times, and showed his work extensively throughout the United States. When he died in 1984, the Museum of Modern Art, held a major retrospective of his work four years later in 1988. ==

==Things about the photography of Garry Winogrand that I like is the depictions of the city he gives you. New York City has many faces and I feel like Winogrand uncovered all those faces. He was a street photographer who used a hand held camera and took his photos in black and white. Due to the time period photos could only be taken in black and white. That is the only thing about his photography that I don't like. I understand it was impossible to take color photos during this time period but color photography is what appeals to me. Other than that I have no complaints and I understand that all photographers use different methods with different mental outlooks. Uniqueness is a crucial part of photography and I will respect that fact. ==


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