Garry winogrand biography book review

  • 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.
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  • It's a big, handsome clothbound production, built to last.

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    The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand

    November 21,
    This book is targeted towards those interested in photography so this review most likely won't resonate as much with other readers. This is a coffee table size book featuring photographs of street photographer Garry Winogrand. Although he was primarily known for black and white photographs, this collection is notable for including a selection of color photos as well. Mr. Winogrand was best known for his New York City photos in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, but as this book shows, he also did photos in Los Angeles, Austin, a bit of Europe, and even on a funded trip across the country. My main complaint with this type of book is usually the pictures don't have any explanation and simply stand on their own. In this case, Geoff Dyer rose to the challenge of addressing each picture he chose for this volume and creating a story in many cases since it's really not knowable as to what was really going on. This could have come off as pretenti

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    THE STREET PHILOSOPHY OF GARRY WINOGRAND

    A revealing biography of the fabled Manhattan hotel, in which generations of artists and writers funnen a haven.

    Turn-of-the century New York did not lack either hotels or apartment buildings, writes Tippins (February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, beneath One Roof In Wartime America, ). But the Chelsea Hotel, from its very inception, was different. Architect Philip Hubert intended the elegantly designed Chelsea Association Building to reflect the utopian ideals of Charles Fourier, offering every amenity conducive to cooperative living: public spaces and gardens, a dining room, artists’ studios, and 80 apartments suitable for an economically diverse population of single workers, young couples, small families and wealthy residents who otherwise might choose to live in a private brownstone. Hubert especially wanted to attract creative types and made sure the buildi

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    Walking the Streets with Geoff Dyer &#; Garry Winogrand

    In Geoff Dyer’s first book about photography, The Ongoing Moment (), the English critic and novelist looked at images by a group of his favorite photographers through a prism of motifs that he believed had reoccurred like Jungian archetypes across decades and continents. How and why these mundane subjects or objects (blind people, hats, roads, clouds, benches, doors, gas stations, barber shops) had been successively reinterpreted by Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Eugène Atget, Dorothea Lange, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, William Eggleston, and thirty-four others formed the basis for a series of uncommonly original and engaging, if at times wayward, observations and reflections. Emulating Roland Barthes, Dyer oscillated between close readings of individual pictures and free associations. A photograph by Kertész from , of an old man walking at night in Hungary, say, reminds him of

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