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Garry Winogrand

Todd Papageorge talks about the work of 70's American photographer Garry Winogrand currently on show at the SFMOMA retrospective: link here

There was a Tate Modern retrospective for Robert Frank a decade or so ago but Winogrand makes curators in the UK recoil and although this show will tour across Europe, it won't be shown here.

Todd Papageorge knew Winogrand and in his talk gives a glimpse of how exasperating and funny and inspirational he could be.  He also makes clear that Winogrand's street photographs are far more than crooked snapshots.  One highlight is when he refers to John Szarkowski's reading of this photograph of two men (taken when Garry lived in Texas and would shoot the Stock/rodeo fortnight every year),as of 'one who has had his land taken from him and the other who was taken from his land'.