The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand
"Inspiring and unusual…the kind of book that you sit down and read, cover to cover, the first time, and then return to, often, to open the book at random to appreciate just one image and a short essay for inspiration."
Lens Culture
Garry Winogrand-along with Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander-was one of the most important photographers of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as one of the world's foremost street photographers. Award-winning writer Geoff Dyer has admired Winogrand's work for many years. Les mer
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on a wildly original journey through both iconic and unseen images from the archive, including eighteen previously unpublished color photographs.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 Winogrand's themes and subjects and remains broadly faithful to the chronological and geographical facts of his life, but Dyer's 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 Winogrand's photography-an education in seeing.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Texas Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 240
- ISBN
- 9781477310335
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 31 x 25 cm
Anmeldelser
"Inspiring and unusual…the kind of book that you sit down and read, cover to cover, the first time, and then return to, often, to open the book at random to appreciate just one image and a short essay for inspiration."
Lens Culture
"I found The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand so compelling that I devoured it from cover to cover twice, in two mesmerizing sittings…[Winogrand's] work comes across now all the more powerfully for being embraced by one of our outstandingly accomplished writers and critics."
Studies in Photography
"Geoff Dyer writes books that are easy to enjoy but hard to pin down. . . [His] refusal to be hemmed in (not to mention the cheerful indifference to his own best-laid plans) is what makes Dyer the ideal partner for Winogrand, who hated the term “street photography” even as his name became synonymous with it."
New York Times
"Physically imposing and visually sumptuous."
New York Times, Editor's Choice
"When I next want to recall instantly why Winogrand is essential, an exemplar of what photography can disclose about reality and our secret, public selves, Dyer’s will be the first book I reach for."
New York Review of Books
"An amazing tome of street-style photographs from the legendary documentarian’s 1960s to 1980s archives."
Town Country
"Dyer’s riffs are both playful and illuminating, and will make you look anew at the work of a man who once said: “I’m a photographer, a still photographer. That’s it.” As this book reminds us, it isn't."
The Guardian
"A truly fascinating read."
Tucson Weekly
"A wildly original journey through both iconic and unseen images from Winogrand's vast archive, with responses to the photographs that are unorthodox, funny and eye-opening."
University of Arizona News
"A luxurious meditation on the many ways in which the photographer’s remarkable images work. . . there is no one quite as well matched to give voice to Winogrand’s work as Dyer does in this exquisitely layered and thoughtful book."
Huck
"Dyer and Winogrand co-exist effortlessly, both frenetically productive cranks with commitment issues, whether in theme or form. At its best moments, Street Philosophy embraces the undirected, and uncaring, genius of both its writer and its subject—”In spite—and because of what’s going on, it’s impossible to tell what’s going on,” Dyer writes at one point—and the book is better for it."
Pacific Standard
"Handsomely designed. . . Dyer provides entertaining commentary for each photo, coaxing possible meanings from the anonymous individuals caught by Winogrand in moments of time."
Milwaukee Shepherd Express
"Nicely designed, inviting throughout, and superbly printed…In a sense, every photograph is a double exposure, the time of when it was taken and the times when it is being looked at. We can occupy both times at once when we immerse ourselves in this appealing book."
Easy Reader News
"The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand is a book to digest in small bites. Then you can really appreciate Dyer's subtle humor, wide-ranging aesthetic sense, and quirky insights. But wear your boots, because it can get a bit deep at times."
PhotoBook Journal