The Met Museum Presents GARRY WINOGRAND, 6/27-9/21
The first retrospective in 25 years of work by Garry Winogrand (1928-1984)-the renowned photographer of New York City and of American life from the 1950s through the early 1980s-will open at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 27, 2014. Garry Winogrand brings together more than 175 of the artist's most iconic images, a trove of unseen prints, and even Winogrand's famed series of photos made at the Metropolitan Museum in 1969 when the Museum celebrated its centennial. This exhibition offers a rigorous overview of Winogrand's complete working life and reveals for the first time the full sweep of his career.The exhibition is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The international tour of this exhibition is sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Leadership support is provided by Randi and Bob Fisher.Additional support is provided by the Blavatnik Family Foundation and The Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Foundation.Born in the Bronx, Winogrand did much of his best-known work in Manhattan during the 1960s, and in both the content of his photographs and his artistic style he became one of the principal voices of that eruptive decade. Known primarily as a street photographer, Winogrand, who is often associated with famed contemporaries Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander, photographed with dazzling energy and incessant appetite, exposing some 20,000 rolls of film in his short lifetime. He photographed business moguls, everyday women on the street, famous actors and athletes, hippies, politicians, soldiers, animals in zoos, rodeos, car culture, airports, and antiwar demonstrators and the construction workers who beat them bloody in view of the unmoved police. Daily life in postwar America-rich with new possibility and yet equally anxious, threatening to spin out of control-seemed to unfold for him in a continuous stream.
The exhibition has been conceived and guest-curated by photographer and author Leo Rubinfien with Erin O'Toole, associate curator of photography at SFMOMA, and Sarah Greenough, senior curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's presentation of the exhibition is organized by Jeff L. Rosenheim, Curator in Charge of the Museum's Department of Photographs.Related Publication and Programs
The exhibition catalogue (448 pages; $85 hardcover, $50 softcover) is published by SFMOMA in association with Yale University Press.Education programs include exhibition tours.The exhibition will be featured on the Museum's website at www.metmuseum.org.Prior to its presentation at the Metropolitan Museum, Garry Winogrand debuted at SFMOMA and will be on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.( March 2-June 8, 2014). Following its showing in New York, it be on view at the Jeu de Paume, Paris (October 14, 2014 through January 25, 2015), and the Fundacion MAPFRE, Madrid (March 3 through May 10, 2015).
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