Garry Winogrand: Eisenhower Years

Winogrand’s early work shows a radical departure from the style of documentary photographers. Unattached to persons or outcomes, the artist takes pleasure in simply observing the human dramas and absurdities that play out in public spaces.

Black-and-white group portrait of politicians in two rows with raised arm in the foreground
Black-and-white photograph of older man in suit through a crowded foreground
Black-and-white photograph of a man's face isolated amidst a blurred black foreground
Black-and-white photograph of a party setting with men and women in formal dress seated at round tables
Black-and-white photograph of an older man and woman in formal dress conversing at a round table
Black-and-white photograph of six people embracing and kneeling on the sand
Black-and-white photograph of people in bathing suits beneath a boardwalk
Black-and-white photograph of a man with white hair peering over the roof of a car in a parking lot
Black-and-white photograph of a group of four boys and a dog looking at another boy sitting at the corner of a building
Black-and-white photograph of a crowd of young men with arms raised towards a round object floating above them
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Black-and-white photograph taken through a car's front windshield of a calf crossing the road

Garry Winogrand: On the Road