The Man in the Crowd: The Uneasy Streets of Garry Winogrand [Hardcover]

Garry Winogrand (Author, Photographer), Jeffrey Fraenkel (Foreword), Frish Brandt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2, 1999

The first publication to focus on the street photos at the core of Winogrand's work, this collection features numerous shots that have never before been printed. 107 duotones.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Winogrand (192884) belongs to a group of early explorers of that borderland between documentary and art photography, sharing space with Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, and Diane Arbus and building on the work of Walker Evans and Weegee. Yet despite a 1988 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art and a huge influence on a younger generation of art photographers, he remains underappreciated by the general public. Hopefully, this lavish publication, concentrating on his most important body of work, the street scenes, will begin to change that. Winogrand took the workaday street tableau and revealed there an intensity and humanity as clear as in any image in a museum. The majority of the 107 photos capture New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and they now serve the purpose of a time capsule. But more than that they evoke a timeless spirit of individual alive in the city. Highly recommended for all photography collections.Eric Bryant, Library Journal
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Review

Each image is filled with detail, rich gestures and complex motifs. The best have a certain mystery and evocative power. -- The New York Times Book Review, Jake Miller

Product Details

• Hardcover: 168 pages
• Publisher: Fraenkel Gallery (January 2, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1881337057
• ISBN-13: 978-1881337058
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 10.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #583,213 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not Bad For A Million Rolls of Film!, May 28, 2000

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This review is from: The Man in the Crowd: The Uneasy Streets of Garry Winogrand (Hardcover)

Gary Winogrand was the type of photographer who had a very itchy camera trigger finger. When he died he left behind around 10,000 rolls of undeveloped film. If it moved he photographed it. Did he shoot so many good pictures simply because he took such an unbelievably large number of them, i.e. if you take a million shots aren't you bound statistically to get at least a thousand good ones? Good question, yet GW is one of my favorite people. If you like street photography with insight and humor he is almost unbeatable. These are candid portraits that catch people gawking, staring, laughing, having fun, showing pain, and often being oblivious to everything around them. Gary was not shy; he thrust his camera right into people's faces, and caught them in off guard moments. A man crawls along a sidewalk unnoticed by a group of American Legionnaires. Another man walks nude through a crowd without attracting much attention at all. Another man walks through a crowd carrying an immense poster of the Beatles. Why is he doing this; where is he going? A man with a bandaged nose stares strangely at his female passenger as he drives along. Is he angry with her or is he perhaps lusting after her. You decide.

It takes you forever to get through this book as you sit and look at each picture for a long, long time. How revealing are the faces, the postures, and the gestures; each shot prompts you to weave a story around the captured event. Winogrand seems to be made up of equal portions of Elliott Erwitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Diane Arbus, and Andre Kertesz (if you are unfamiliar with any of these folks, and you like Winogrand, you had better check them out). The saddest thing is that almost all of Winogrand's books are out of print. This is a breathtaking collection of his work.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Real, November 7, 1999

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This review is from: The Man in the Crowd: The Uneasy Streets of Garry Winogrand (Hardcover)

This book is worth reading by every person loving cities, not just photograph-lovers. A book so real, you feel you are walking through a cith while flipping the pages!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great insight into candid photography., May 25, 1999

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[e-mail] (Keith Sikes) (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

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I am a street photographer existing in my own vacuum until I found the book Facing New York by Bruce Gilden and now this work by Garry Winogrand. I love the genre, the theft of a slice of life as it occurs on our streets. Reality ends up being the perfect casting director for a visual of modern America. Winogrand's work is beautiful in its simplicity and I realize my goal is to follow in his path. A very important photographer for me.