Garry Winogrand

When
Sat May 18 (full schedule below)
Where
SFMOMA
Time
11:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.
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Widely acknowledged as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) captured moments of everyday American life in the postwar era, producing an expansive picture of a nation rich with possibility yet threatening to spin out of control. He did much of his best-known work in New York in the 1960s, becoming a major voice of that tumultuous decade. But he also roamed widely around the United States, from California and Texas to Miami and Chicago. He photographed the rich and powerful and everyday strangers on the street; antiwar protesters and politicians; airports and zoos. In many of these pictures, humor and visual energy are the flip sides of an anxious instability. As photographer and guest curator Leo Rubinfien says, "The hope and buoyancy of middle-class life in postwar America is half of the emotional heart of Winogrand's work. The other half is a sense of undoing."

When he died suddenly at age 56, Winogrand left behind thousands of rolls of exposed but undeveloped film and unedited contact sheets — some 250,000 frames in total. Nearly 100 of these pictures have been printed for the first time for this long-awaited retrospective of his work. By presenting such archival discoveries alongside celebrated pictures, Garry Winogrand reframes a career that was, like the artist's America, both epic and unresolved. This exhibition has been jointly organized by SFMOMA and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and will travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Jeu de Paume in Paris, and Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid.



Source: http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/452
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Schedule

SFMOMA
151 3rd St
San Francisco, CA
Sat May 18 (11:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.)
Sun May 19 (11:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.)
Mon May 20 (11:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.)
Tue May 21 (11:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.)
Thu May 23 (11:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.)

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  1. SFMOMA
    151 3rd St, San Francisco, CA

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