The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand

About this book

In the tradition of John Szarkowskis classic book Atget award-winning author Geoff Dyer writes one hundred essays about one hundred photographs including previously unpublished color work by renowned street photographer Garry Winogrand. Garry Winograndalong with Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlanderwas one of the most important photographers of the 1960s and 1970s as well as one of the worlds foremost street photographers. Award-winning writer Geoff Dyer has admired Winogrands work for many years. Modeled on John Szarkowskis classic book Atget The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand is a masterfully curated selection of one hundred photographs from the Winogrand archive at the Center for Creative Photography with each image accompanied by an original essay. Dyer takes the viewer/reader on a wildly original journey through both iconic and unseen images from the archive including eighteen previously unpublished color photographs. The book encompasses most of Winogrands themes and subjects and remains broadly faithful to the chronological and geographical facts of his life but Dyers responses to the photographs are unorthodox eye-opening and often hilarious. This inimitable combination of photographer and writer images and text itself offers what Dyer claims for Winogrands photographyan education in seeing.