Down the Winogrand Rabbit Hole…
A forthcoming documentary and book of essays promise new insights on one of our favorite photographers
One of this week’s 5 Things was an overview of the late great Garry Winogrand. That link sent me down a rabbit hole of Sunday morning searching which led me the always interesting American Suburb X:
I shared that link on Facebook today and someone reminded me about Sasha Waters-Freyer’s forthcoming documentary about Winogrand which is scheduled to premiere in film festivals later this year. More about the movie in this interview with Waters-Freyer in Richmond Magazine:
Really looking forward to this one. Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable will have its broadcast premiere on PBS’s American Masters series in September 2018 and will start touring film festivals this summer.
This too: Geoff Dyer’s new book looks at the photographer’s approach to imagemaking. From the University of Texas Press site:
Award-winning writer Geoff Dyer has admired Winogrand’s work for many years. Modeled on John Szarkowski’s classic book Atget, The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand is a masterfully curated selection of one hundred photographs from the Winogrand archive at the Center for Creative Photography, with each image accompanied by an original essay. Dyer takes the viewer/reader on a wildly original journey through both iconic and unseen images from the archive, including eighteen previously unpublished color photographs. The book encompasses most of Winogrand’s themes and subjects and remains broadly faithful to the chronological and geographical facts of his life, but Dyer’s responses to the photographs are unorthodox, eye-opening, and often hilarious. This inimitable combination of photographer and writer, images and text, itself offers what Dyer claims for Winogrand’s photography — an education in seeing.
And, for good measure, here’s Tod Papageorge lecturing on Winogrand:
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