The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand by Dyer, Geoff

ISBN: 1477310339

Author: Dyer, Geoff

Condition: new

Garry Winogrand-along with Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander-was one of the most important photographers of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as one of the worlds foremost street photographers. Award-winning writer Geoff Dyer has admired Winogrands work for many years. Modeled on John Szarkowskis 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 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on a wildly original journey through both iconic and unseen images from the archive, including eighteen previously unpublished color photographs. The book encompasses most of Winogrands themes and subjects and remains broadly faithful to the chronological and geographical facts of his life, but Dyers responses to the photographs are unorthodox, eye-opening, and often hilarious. This inimitable combination of photographer and writer, images and text, itself offers what Dyer claims for Winogrands photography-an education in seeing.