Garry Winogrand
Fort Worth

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Artist Garry Winogrand (American, 1928–1984)American, 1928–1984

CultureAmerican

Titles

Fort Worth

Date1964

Place depictedFort Worth, Texas, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 9 1/16 × 13 7/16 in. (23 × 34.1 cm)
Sheet: 10 3/4 × 13 7/8 in. (27.3 × 35.2 cm)
Mount: 15 15/16 × 19 15/16 in. (40.5 × 50.6 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Morgan Garwood

Object number2014.176

Not on view

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Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionGarry Winogrand photographed art openings, zoos, airports, rodeos, political events, and grandstand entertainment throughout his life, but it was his treatment of the New York street that earned his reputation as a central photographer of 1960s American life, particularly his seemingly obsessive compulsion to photograph women passersby. In 1964, Winogrand traveled through the United States on a Guggenheim Fellowship, stopping for some time in Texas, where he would return a decade later to teach at the University of Texas. This photograph, taken at night in a Fort Worth diner, exemplifies his style of sardonic observation; the paired figures seem to interact as minimally as possible in the stagnant environment, lending an air of dispassionate alienation.
ProvenanceMorgan Garwood, New York; bequeathed to MFAH, 2014.
Exhibition History“A Critical Eye: Mid-Century American Photographs from the Morgan Garwood Collection,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 23–November 2, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso of mount lower left in ink reading vertically "8006"
top right corner "84"

bottom left of sheet below image in pencil "Garry Winogrand"

Printed label verso upper left: THE CRONIN GALLERY / 2424 Bissonnet, Houston, Texas 77005 / 713-526-2548 / Garry Winogrand - original gelatin / silver print // untitled

Typed sticker on verso upper right: Winogrand / 5 Con. Photos.

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