{"data":{"id":"3489","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":3489,"topgoose_id":281,"tms_id":3489,"display_name":"Garry Winogrand","sort_name":"Winogrand Garry","display_date":"1928–1984","begin_date":"1928","end_date":"1984","biography":"\u003cp\u003eGarry Winogrand, born and raised in\nNew York, spent most of his career\nphotographing the visual cacophony of his\nnative city. Each day, the photographer\nwould spend hours strolling its busy\nsidewalks and parks, shooting a dozen rolls\nof black-and-white film that captured the\npossibilities and anxieties of daily life in\npostwar America. Winogrand used a 35mm\ncamera that enabled him to produce\nsnapshot-like photographs quickly and\nfreely. In 1967 curator John Szarkowski\nselected Winogrand, along with \u003ca href=\"/artists/4285\"\u003eDiane Arbus\u003c/a\u003e\nand \u003ca href=\"/artists/465\"\u003eLee Friedlander,\u003c/a\u003e for the influential\nexhibition\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;New Documents\u003c/em\u003e at the Museum of Modern Art, noting that these artists used documentary photography for “personal ends” rather than as a tool of social reform.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/collection/works/7828\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York City\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/a\u003eappears to be a candid encounter with a woman eating an ice cream cone on a sidewalk. In fact, outtakes reveal that Winogrand interacted with his subject, moving around her in order to crop out her male companion and to slyly reveal his own reflection in the store window. The photograph became the cover image for his 1975 monograph \u003cem\u003eWomen Are Beautiful\u003c/em\u003e, featuring eighty-four\npictures of women in a variety of situations\nand places in and around New York.\nThese images capture the styles, activities,\nand gestures that accompanied the second-\nwave feminism and sexual liberation of\nthe era. Of his subjects, Winogrand noted:\n“I respond to their energies, how they stand\nand move their bodies and faces. In the\nend, the photographs are descriptions of\nposes or attitudes that give an idea,\na hint of their energies.”\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":true,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500014550","wikidata_id":"Q121903","created_at":"2017-08-30T15:35:25.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-04-09T07:02:48.334-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/3489/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/3489/exhibitions"}}}}