Garry Winogrand: Behind the Legend | LensCulture

Since the exhibition „Garry Winogrand“ debuted at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the spring of 2013, the show has proven to be nothing short of a sensation. With subsequent stops in Washington D.C., New York City and now Paris, the exhibition has been seen by hundreds of thousands of photography lovers from around the world. The body of work on display (showing until February 8 at the Jeu de Paume), numbering several hundred prints (many of which had never been seen before), has shed new light on the man and even on the medium itself. Although the exhibition is jam-packed—photographs, contact sheets, type-written letters, Guggenheim Fellowship applications, personal correspondences—the exhibition catalogue provides even more insight into the monumental effort required to put everything together. The book is filled with some 460 illustrations, including Winogrand’s most famous images alongside many never-before-seen gems. The texts in the book include an extended (if somewhat long-winded) introduction by the curator, Leo Rubinfien, as well as excellent essays by Tod Papageorge, Sarah Greenough, Sandra Phillips, as well as several others. But even after taking in the catalogue’s rich and varied offerings, we found it was still not enough to sate our curiosity. Like Winogrand himself, we found ourselves needing to keep going, to keep searching, to keep learning….

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