{"id":52164,"date":"2018-09-18T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/?p=52164"},"modified":"2025-02-27T15:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T20:48:52","slug":"the-long-awaited-garry-winogrand-documentary-highlights-the-iconic-street-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/the-long-awaited-garry-winogrand-documentary-highlights-the-iconic-street-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long-Awaited Garry Winogrand Documentary Highlights the Iconic Street Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable<\/em><\/a> is the first cinematic survey of Winogrand\u2019s work, including selections from over 300,000 frames of film still undeveloped upon his unexpected death in 1984 at age 56.<\/p>\n

The pictorial biography \u2014 which opens tomorrow in New York City, in Los Angeles on September 28th, and additional cities to follow \u2014 flows with interviews from his friends, family, colleagues, and archived recordings of Winogrand himself. His appearances speaking at a public lecture, in his gruff Bronx streetwise accent, explain what his art, especially those famed images, is about. <\/p>\n

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“GARRY WINOGRAND” poster. Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Winogrand was seemingly everywhere in during the 1960\u2019s and 70\u2019s, capturing the serendipity of happenings on the city streets from New York City to Los Angeles with a sharp documentarian eye for detail. The film tackles the work beyond his black-and-white greatest hits, creating a biography that goes further than seen before, all while observing themes of cultural upheaval, intimacy, alienation, and deeper consideration of his art. <\/p>\n

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8mm film still, New York, 1968. Photograph by Garry Winogrand, Collection Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. \u00a9 The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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8mm film still, Bethesda, circa 1968. Photograph by Garry Winogrand, Collection Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. \u00a9 The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Park Avenue, New York, 1959. Photograph by Garry Winogrand, Collection Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. \u00a9 The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His Leica M4 snapped images of everyday people over three decades, including spontaneous Manhattan street interaction, the birth of the American middle-class suburbs, the early years of the Women\u2019s Movement, and the post-Golden Age Marilyn-era Hollywood. Included is an interview with Matthew Weiner, the creator of TV series Mad Men<\/em>, who cites Winograd\u2019s numerous photographs and film footage as an indisputable influence for the show\u2019s award-winning production design.<\/p>\n

Winogrand is known for his black-and-white images, which he shot so he could make contact sheets and work prints in his own darkroom. He was prolific, shooting up to 600 rolls of film each year. He is described in the film as a “poet, athlete, and philosopher” of photography, and someone who truly mirrors America at a that moment in time. One of his first shows was New Documents at the MOMA in 1967, a trio exhibition with Lee Friedlander and Diane Arbus. <\/p>\n

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New York, 1968. Photograph by Garry Winogrand, Collection Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. \u00a9 The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Los Angeles, 1964. Photograph by Garry Winogrand, Collection Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. \u00a9 The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable<\/em><\/a> is also about an artist’s rise and fall from the 1950’s to the mid-80’s. “This is a film primarily about photography, one that explores Garry Winogrand\u2019s tremendous contributions to the art form and his lasting influence on how we think of the medium today. But it is also a film that, I hope, explores and explodes the cliche\u0301 of the undomesticated, self-destructive genius \u2013 one who is fundamentally unsuited to family life,” says director Sasha Waters Freyer in her director’s statement.<\/p>\n

For more information, check out the film’s website<\/a> for tickets and showtimes, and take a sneak peek at the documentary in the trailer below: <\/p>\n