Garry Winogrand: The Animals

Seen through Winogrand’s lens, the zoo is a theater in which humans and animals, united in a peculiar kind of symbiosis, act out in parable the comic drama of modern urban life.

Black and white photograph of several figures looking at two elephants in captivity in a zoo
Black-and-white photograph of a woman having her photograph taken in front of a zoo's zebra enclosure
Black-and-white photograph of a man and a woman leaning against the fence of a zoo's wolf enclosure
Black-and-white photograph of a chimpanzee holding a bunch of grapes over its young reaching for them
Black-and-white photograph of a man encountering a rhinoceros peering out of its enclosure at him
Black-and-white photograph of a keeper standing over a sea lion while visitors look on from the left
Black-and-white photograph of an orangutan hunched over on the ground looking up at the viewer
Black-and-white photograph of an adult pointing out to a marmoset monkey behind glass to two small children
Black-and-white photograph of a sea lion's hind flippers raised above the water in a cement enclosure
Black-and-white photograph of three aquarium visitors peering over a fence at a walrus surfacing from the water
Black-and-white photograph of two llamas behind a locked iron gate
Black-and-white photograph of a keeper crouching to feed fish to a beluga whale
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