*Garry Winogrand: Color *was the first exhibition dedicated to the nearly forgotten color work of Garry Winogrand (1928–1984)—a photographer almost exclusively known for the black-and-white street images that defined his reputation. Between the early 1950s and late 1960s, he shot more than 45,000 color slides. Working-class Bronx background, no resources for costly prints: he never published them. They sat in the archive at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson for decades. More than 400 images were presented as large-scale projections in a single long room, organized into eight loosely thematic sequences, each rotating through 30 to 70 images. The work moved rather than hung. A separate room of black-and-white prints from the Museum's collection offered counterpoint, along with two screens of 8mm color film he shot on the streets of New York during the same period. The snapshot aesthetic he was famous for, now saturated, now alive in a different register entirely.
Year: 2019
Clients: Brooklyn Museum
Category: Exhibition, Direction