“I photograph the world to see what the world looks like photographed.” – Garry Winogrand, 1974
The street was Garry Winogrand’s playground as he recorded fleeting moments from the busy world around him. A pre-focused hand-held camera allowed Winogrand the freedom to shoot at will, without stopping to consciously compose or frame his subjects. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Winogrand seized the opportunity to document an odd arrangement of people and objects. An apprehensive toddler, a toppled tricycle, and a mysterious U shape painted on the face of a mountain come together without explanation or narrative. For Winogrand, this photograph is “the illusion of a literal description of how a camera saw a piece of time and space.
A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2013
The street was Garry Winogrand’s playground as he recorded fleeting moments from the busy world around him. A pre-focused hand-held camera allowed Winogrand the freedom to shoot at will, without stopping to consciously compose or frame his subjects. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Winogrand seized the opportunity to document an odd arrangement of people and objects. An apprehensive toddler, a toppled tricycle, and a mysterious U shape painted on the face of a mountain come together without explanation or narrative. For Winogrand, this photograph is “the illusion of a literal description of how a camera saw a piece of time and space.
A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2013
- Title
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Artist
- Publisher
- Date
- 1958, printed 1974
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 8 5⁄8 x 13 in. (22.0 x 32.9 cm.)
- Copyright
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© 1974, Estate of Garry Winogrand
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Museum purchase
- Mediums Description
- gelatin silver print
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Figure – child
- Landscape – desert
- Architecture Exterior – domestic – garage
- Landscape – New Mexico – Albuquerque
- Object Number
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1985.36.1
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
