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New York City, Three Women
Garry Winogrand
1969
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A painter turned photographer, Garry Winogrand is known for his street photography and other visual documentation of American life. He published four books of his photographs, including The Animals (1969) and Women Are Beautiful (1975). Winogrand received three Guggenheim Fellowship Awards and a National Endowment of the Arts Award. He taught photography courses at the University of Texas at Austin and at the Art Institute of Chicago. When he died, he left more than 2,500 undeveloped rolls of film. A small fraction of these images appeared in the posthumous exhibition “Winogrand, Figments from the Real World” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1988.
Manhattan, a high narrow kingdom as hopeful as any that ever was, burst upon him full force, a great and imperfect steel-tressed palace of a hundred million chambers, many-tiered gardens, pools…
He remembers well how for the first time in his life he tried to cross the big street in Baghdad. With one hand his mother held onto him and with the other she held her long and wide cape, looked…