Untitled

1960

Not on view

This is an unusual image in the oeuvre of a photographer known chiefly for a confrontational style that made instances from everyday life on the street look like snippets from a well-choreographed farce. Rather than dancing about to the rhythm of urban life, these people seem suspended for eternity as static weights in a three-dimensional balancing game predicated on their own insubstantial shadows. If Winogrand's normal mode was one of witty graphic innovation, here he probes the tragic undertones in life's dark comedy.

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Exhibition History

Title: Untitled
Artist: Garry Winogrand (American, New York 1928–1984 Tijuana, Mexico)
Date: 1960
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 22.9 x 34.3 cm (9 x 13 1/2 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gift of Barbara and Eugene Schwartz, 1994
Object Number: 1994.107
Rights and Reproduction: © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, all rights reserved. Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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