NYAB Event - Garry Winogrand “Six”

Garry Winogrand “Six”

Pace MacGill

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Pace/MacGill Gallery presents Garry Winogrand: Six. Featuring both iconic and lesser known images, the exhibition explores six main themes of Winogrand’s oeuvre through groupings of six photographs each. From the streets and parks of New York City to Texas rodeos and state fairs, public relations , zoo an imals, and women around the world, the 36 photographs on view provide a concise look at the variety of subjects that inspired one of the medium’s most prolific and influential chroniclers of contemporary culture. Deemed “the central photographer of h is generation” by John Szarkowski in the exhibition catalogue accompanying his 1988 retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art , New York, Garry Winogrand (1928 - 1984) documented postwar American life with unprecedented zeal. The quintessential street photographer, he voraciously recorded the drama of public spaces with innovative and unorthodox images that pushed the possibilities of photographic descripti on. Taken with a small - format 35mm camera and a wide - angle lens, Winogrand’s deceptively casual and seemingly spontaneous pictures defied formal conventions with their oblique perspectives and densely packed compositions, while vividly capturing the disti nctive look and mood of the place and era. While Winogrand seldom worked in series, he repeatedly returned to certain subjects throughout his career. The visual cacophony of New York City’s streets was of particular interest to him, as was Central Park, which served as th e backdrop for perhaps his best - known image of a couple carrying a pair of well - dressed chimpanzees. Intrigued by “the effect of the media on events,” Winogrand also photographed a variety of public gatherings – museum openings, press co nferences, peace demonstrations, and sports games , among others – a topic which he further explored at the rodeos, stock shows, and state fairs in Texas. His pictures of zoo animals and their visitors present sly meditations on the human condition, while his images of women not only reveal Winogrand’s attraction to his subjects, but also speak to broader notions of gender in the 1960s and 70s.