Description
Garry Winogrand—together with Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander—was once some of the important photographers of the 1960s and 1970s, in addition to one of the vital world’s foremost street photographers. Award-winning author Geoff Dyer has admired Winogrand’s work for a few years. Modeled on John Szarkowski’s classic book Atget, The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand is a masterfully curated selection of one hundred photographs from the Winogrand archive at the Center for Creative Photography, with each and every image accompanied by an original essay.
Dyer takes the viewer/reader on a wildly original journey through both iconic and unseen images from the archive, including eighteen up to now unpublished color photographs. The book encompasses most of Winogrand’s themes and subjects and remains broadly faithful to the chronological and geographical facts of his life, but Dyer’s responses to the photographs are unorthodox, eye-opening, and steadily hilarious. This inimitable combination of photographer and author, images and text, itself offers what Dyer claims for Winogrand’s photography—an education in seeing.