GARRY WINOGRAND: “Class Time with Garry Winogrand” (1974 – 1976)

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…y; we exchanged some crude jokes in Spanish. Lee retired in 1973 and he passed away in Austin in 1986. Enter Garry Winogrand It was evident from the first day of class that Garry was cut from different cloth than Russell Lee. Gary was not a classic documentarian photographer – if there actually is such a thing – and he certainly wasn’t a typical university instructor – again if there actually is such a thing. Garry had done some photojourna…

GARRY WINOGRAND: “Class Time with Garry Winogrand” (1974 – 1976)

JEFF BROUWS: “It Don’t Exist – The Impact of Sprawl and Suburban Build-out on Inner City America” (2009)

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…metropolitan total; by 1977 that number had dwindled to less than 5%. It’s something like 1% now. Sprawl without a doubt sped the erosion of downtown retailing. Cleared lot on former central business district along Broadway, Gary, Indiana 2000 This is an abandoned streetscape of Gary, Indiana’s former business district on Broadway. Urban geographers call this a “zone of discard.” Here’s a neighborhood scene in Detroit that represents the dispar…

JEFF BROUWS: “It Don’t Exist – The Impact of Sprawl and Suburban Build-out on Inner City America” (2009)

“The Photographic Idea: Reconsidering Conceptual Photography” (1999)

…conceptual artists’ very lack of investment in photography allowed them to generate new possibilities for the medium. However, they were not alone in this enterprise. Fine art photographers during the late 1960s such as Gary Winogrand and Lee Friedlander shared with the conceptualists an interest in identifying and subverting the conventions of photographic vision. The refusal of conceptualists to take photography seriously on its own terms…

“The Photographic Idea: Reconsidering Conceptual Photography” (1999)

INTERVIEW: “An Interview with Arnold Newman”

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…. It just simply means that I am able to think better. Let’s put it that way. AC: I read that you don’t really consider yourself an environmental portrait photographer, is that true? AN: No, I think basically I am. But I hate labels. That label was placed on me by an early writer who did an article on me calling me the father of the environmental portrait, which seems to have stuck. But the Stravinsky is not an environmental portrait, it’s really…

INTERVIEW: “An Interview with Arnold Newman”

 
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