Thursday, 21 April 2016

Garry Winogrand

Garry Winogrand was a New York City street photographer. He dedicated much of his life to shooting street photographs near enough everyday. He is famed for saying "I take photographs to see how the world looks as a photograph" having said that when he died he left behind 6,500 rolls of undeveloped film. This is a sign that he got so invested in shooting photographs that just the process of photographing was enough for his fulfilment.

The photographs Winogrand took of the streets captures life as it unfolds in all its glory. His photographs are just taken from the spontaneity of life. Winogrand was also a self confessed misogynist, this is evident in his photographs with implications of iconography when photographing women. He also is known for something called the "winogrand tilt" this is the unmistaken un-straight horizon on his photographs. This tilt related to the idea that Winogrand believed and that was that he wanted to create a separation between reality and a photograph.

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