An interesting interview in Mother Jones Never Before Seen Photos From Legendary Street Photographer Garry Winogrand with Mark Murrmann talking to Ted Pushinsky, a San Francisco street photographer who got to know Winogrand in his later years and at times drove him around Los Angeles as he hung out of the car window taking pictures, as well as walking the streets with him.
And I think there are eight or nine of the “never before seen” photographs that I’ve never seen before, though they do include one or two I never want to see again and which I don’t think do anything to enhance Winogrand’s reputation. It’s good to hear of a new show, but I’m not sure it will add much to the 1988 MoMA show – and you can see some of his work in their collection. There is a good selection of links on American Suburb X, and pictures at various galleries including Kopeikin and Fraenkel.
More about the new retrospective show – the first for 25 years – which opens at SFMOMA today and continues until 02 June 2013 (press release here) and later travels to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (March 2 – June 8, 2014); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (June 27 – September 21, 2014); the Jeu de Paume, Paris (October 14, 2014 – January 25, 2015); and the Fundacion MAPFRE, Madrid (March 3 through May 10, 2015).
What a shame that London apparently has no gallery interested enough in photography (or considered important enough) to put it on here!
I visited Wolverhampton about 4 yrs ago to see “Celebration of a Genius” the Ansel Adams exhibition. I had recovered from my AA phase but the chance to see the prints live was too much. Yes Edinburgh and Wolverhampton. The gallery staff I talked to were stunned by the floods of visitors. Since then gallery interest in the UK seems to have dropped even further, do we all view online now? Where has the print gone as an iconic object in its own right? You can view pixels anywhere I suppose, sit in Costa and gesture flick through the show?
As ever, thanks for the pointers.
There is still something to be said for seeing the actual prints, though if you have a really high quality display (and if you are a photographer you need at least one device with one) the on-screen image can actually be better in many respects. But few people will take a 21 inch EIZO display into Costa!
I think we also see a lot of very poor quality images on line, and the selection process involved in getting on gallery walls – including by the photographers – does have a considerable weeding out effect. Though I’ve seen plenty of poorly printed and visually poor images on gallery walls.
Peter