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Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful
Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful
Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful
The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts is displaying Women are Beautiful, by famous street photographer Garry Winogrand, until December 31, 2019.
Women are beautiful is on loan from the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Ohio and consists of 85 images of women that encapsulate fashions, energy, and attitudes of the 1960s and 1970s.
Street photographer Garry Winogrand is famous for photographing the streets of New York with his 35mm Leica mid-20th century.
He captured moments that both became historical documents of a time of big social changes as well as regular everyday life in the United States. Street photography became a popular way of documenting urban life and capturing specific moments as cameras became smaller and easier to operate. Winogrand worked alongside famous street photographers Joel Meyerowitz (1938) and Lee Friedlander (1934) but many say he defined mid-century street photography with his energetic style and a keen eye for fashion and attitude.
In his Women are Beautiful series, he walked the streets of the United States and captured women in photography. The photographs
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AD&A Museum
by Chloe Babcock, AD&A Museum Intern
My initial encounter with this photograph was during my return visit to the AD&A Museum since its pandemic related closure. I was excited just to be back inside the museum, and when confronted with this photograph of a woman laughing while holding an ice cream cone, my already happy emotions were heightened. The authenticity and prominence of the subject’s laughter creates a quality of contagion, and brought a big smile to my face when I first looked at the image. I still often find myself smiling when I look at it. Her expression is so familiar to me, emulating how my good friends and I often look when we laugh together, which is one of my favorite activities.
New York is a part of Winogrand’s mid-1960s to mid-1970s series entitled “Women Are Beautiful,” consisting of a plethora of black and white images of women in urban settings. The series was exhibited at the AD&A Museum in 2015, and the individual images can be accessed through the Museum’s online database.
The photographs are relatively all unposed, in the style of street photography. Some of the female subjects appear to be conscious of the photographer, demonstrated by their eye contact or display of emotio
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