Garry Winogrand:  All Things Are Photographable
Photography at Oregon, Last Friday Movie Night

January 31, 2020  6:30 to 8:00pm

Studio 385
385 West 2nd at Lawrence Street
Eugene, Oregon
(541) 521-9747
jon@studiomeyers.com
Free-will donation

“One of the rare art-world bio-docs that delivers the sensation of seeing a story unfold dramatically on screen”
-The Hollywood Reporter

Born January 14, 1928, Garry Winogrand was destined to be a renowned poet of photography and American Life. Having grown up in the Bronx with his sister and immigrant parents, He eventually brought his own unique vision to the genre of street photography. According to PBS American Masters he was “ ……the epic storyteller in pictures who harnessed the serendipity of the streets to capture the American 1960s-70s. His ‘snapshot aesthetic’ is now the universal language of contemporary image making.” Following an early career in freelance photojournalism and advertising, his focus turned to a spontaneous capturing of U.S. life and revealed much of its social concerns in the mid-20th century. At one point in the mid ‘70s his portrayal of women caused a stir by his use of candid and rather questionable positions. Some critics at the time considered this work “vulgar”. However, it didn’t seem to be a concern for him. Frank Van Riper of the Washington Post described him as “one of the greatest documentary photographers of his era” but added that he was “a blunt-spoken, sweet-natured native New Yorker, who had the voice of a Bronx cabbie and the intensity of a pig hunting truffles.” His second wife was even more specific: “….a flippant, irresponsible, nonsensical attitude….”

At the time of his death in March of 1984 at the age of 56, Winogrand had 2500 rolls of undeveloped film, 6500 rolls of developed but not proofed exposures, and about 3000 rolls only realized as far as contact sheets being made. According to curator Tudy Wilner Stack, his first wife claimed that “being married to Garry was like being married to a lens….. He was an obsessive picture-taking machine.”

He has received the following awards:

1964,1969 & 1979: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1975: Fellowship from the Nationall Endowment for the Arts

Presented by Photography at Oregon
Admission by Free-will Donation
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