Garry Winogrand - Photographs New York Wednesday, October 12, 2022 | Phillips

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  • The thin margins, paper type, and overall object quality of this print are indicative of Winogrand’s printing style in the 1960s.

     

    Museum of Modern Art curator John Szarkowski was Winogrand’s most ardent champion. Szarkowski chose this image to reproduce in his seminal book, Looking at Photographs, wherein he writes:

    "In photography the formal issue might be stated as this: How much of the camera’s miraculous descriptive power is the photographer capable of handling? Or how much complexity can he make simple? Or, conversely, how much diversity must he sacrifice for the sake or order? Consider Garry Winogrand’s picture: so rich in fact and suggestion, and so justly resolved: more complex and more beautiful than the movie Alfred Hitchcock might derive from it."

    • Provenance

      Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, acquired from the artist, 1983
      Sotheby’s, New York, 17 October 2006, Lot 133

    • Literature

      Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, p. 189
      Szarkowski, Winogrand: Figments from the Real World, p. 130
      Szarkowski, Winogrand: The Animals, p. 13
      San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Garry Winogrand, pl. 98
      TF. Editores, Garry Winogrand: The Game Of Photography, p. 99
      Fundación MAPFRE, Garry Winogrand, pp. 62-63

    • Catalogue Essay

      'In photography the formal issue might be stated as this: How much of the camera’s miraculous descriptive power is the photographer capable of handling? Or how much complexity can he make simple? Or, conversely, how much diversity must he sacrifice for the sake or order? Consider Garry Winogrand’s picture: so rich in fact and suggestion, and so justly resolved: more complex and more beautiful than the movie Alfred Hitchcock might derive from it.’ – John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs

10

New York

circa 1962
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s or early 1970s.
8 7/8 x 13 1/2 in. (22.5 x 34.3 cm)
Signed by Eileen Adele Hale, Executor of the Winogrand Estate, in pencil and Estate copyright stamp on the verso.

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Estimate
$15,000 - 25,000 

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New York Auction 12 October 2022