Untitled, ca. 1967
Garry Winogrand
Untitled, ca. 1967
© The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
© Fundación MAPFRE COLLECTIONS
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Measurements
Measurements of printed area: 22,5 x 33,7 cm (8 7/8 x 13 1/4 in.)
Paper size: 27,9 x 35,6 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Inventory
FM0002166
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.
