Larger Than Life
Garry Winogrand at the Brooklyn Museum
Life doesn’t happen in black and white. Looking at the majority of photographer Garry Winogrand’s portfolio, primarily shot in black and white, it’s easy to stop short of using the imagination to add color to the images. This year’s exhibition of his work at the Brooklyn Museum overcomes this tendency in a big way, projecting a rare selection of Winogrand’s color work onto the walls, at a larger-than-life scale.
Garry Winogrand: Color is the first exhibition of Winogrand’s work its kind. The show envelops audiences with more than 400 vibrant snapshots of New York and its people taken throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Most of them have never been seen before.
“On his numerous journeys through Midtown Manhattan and across the country, Winogrand explored the raw visual poetics of public life—on streets and highways, in suburbs, at motels, theaters, fairgrounds, and amusement parks,” stated a representative from the Brooklyn Museum. “For him, the industrially manufactured color film, which was used by commercial and amateur photographers, perfectly reproduced the industrially manufactured colors of consumer goods in postwar America.”
The show is on view at New York City’s Brooklyn Museum through December 8.
