Texas State Fair, Dallas, 1964
Garry Winogrand
Texas State Fair, Dallas, 1964, 1964
© The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
© Fundación MAPFRE COLLECTIONS
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Measurements
Measurements of printed area: 33,3 x 22,2 cm (13 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.)
Paper size: 35,6 x 27,9 cm (14 x 11 in.)
Inventory
FM002161
Description
Winogrand investigated. He was not interested in photographs that he could recognize, he needed to find «the others». Legend has it that he would go out onto the streets every day with his Leica, a wide-angle lens, and ten rolls of Tri-X. He would return home with New York in his pockets. His particular frame (skewed, offering an alternative axis to the horizontal) and his command of the wide-angle lens means that the compositions of his photographs are highly precise, where every secondary character and every shadow has a meaning and is aligned with a particular purpose. Photographs are taken quickly, but rarely by chance. Nothing is frivolous in Winogrand’s work but there is also nothing erudite. Everything contains its exact meaning. The photographs are not discursive, they are about the form, the moment and the instant. Filling the frame with a dose of reality and taking the shot. Developing the film. Obtaining the positives. Looking at the contacts; printing them. This is the complete Winogrand journey, which he began every morning with his Leica and his pockets stuffed with blank film, the streets at his feet.
Dallas, Texas
Diamonstein, Barbara. “An Interview with Garry Winogrand”, en Visions and Images: American photographers on photography. Nueva York, Rizoli, 1981, pp. 179-191
Lyons, Nathan y Bruce Davidson. Towards a Social Landscape. Nueva York: Horizon Press for the George Eastman House, 1966
Papageorge, Tod y Garry Winogrand. Garry Winogrand: Public Relations. Nueva York: The Museum of Modern Art, Nueva York 1977
Szarkowski, John. The Photographer’s Eye. Nueva York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966
Szarkowski, John. Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960. Nueva York: Museum of Modern Art, 1978
Winogrand, Garry, Carlos Gollonet, Gregorio Molina, Juan Santana Lario. Garry Winogrand: el juego de la fotografía = the game of photography. Madrid: TF. Editores, 2001
Winogrand, Garry. The Animals. Nueva York: Museum of Modern Art, 2004. (1ªed. 1969)
Winogrand, Garry, Helen Gary Bishop. Women Are Beautiful. Nueva York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975
Winogrand, Garry, John Szarkowski. Winogrand: Figments from the Real World. Springs Industries series on the art of photography. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1988
Winogrand, Garry. Stock Photographs: The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980
Winogrand, Garry, Ben Lifson, Jeffrey Fraenkel. The Man in the Crowd: The Uneasy Streets of Garry Winogrand. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery con D.A.P. 1999
