Garry Winogrand: A Retrospective
The Jeu de Paume will reopen in Paris with the first retrospective in over 25 years dedicated to American photographer Garry Winogrand.
Winogrand, who chronicled America in the post-war years, is still relatively unknown as much of his work remained unfinished at the time of his death. The photographer is however, unquestionably one of the masters of American street photography and can be viewed as on par with greats such as Robert Frank and Walker Evans. Winogrand, who photographed “to see what the world looks like in photographs,” is famous for his photographs of New York and American life from the 1950s through the early 1980s.
The photographs in the exhibition and the accompanying catalogue will create a vivid portrait of the artist. Dying suddenly at the age of 56, he left behind approximately 6,500 rolls of film (some 250,000 images) that he had never seen, as well as proof sheets from his earlier years that he had marked but never printed. Roughly half of the photographs in the exhibition have never been exhibited or published until now; over 100 have never before been printed.
To accompany the retrospective, the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens is organising “La RATP INVITE GARRY WINOGRAND”. In 16 stations throughout its transport network, the RATP will present 26 of Garry Winogrand’s photographs, some of which have never been seen before. Each of these photos will be reproduced several times across the railway network so that in total some 300 images will await the passengers as they travel around Paris.
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