Wyoming

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

CultureAmerican

Titles

Wyoming

Date1964

Place depictedUtah, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 8 7/8 × 13 3/8 in. (22.5 × 34 cm)
Sheet: 8 7/8 × 13 3/8 in. (22.5 × 34 cm)
Mount: 15 1/2 × 20 in. (39.4 × 50.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Ann Galt Myers

Object number79.20

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionAttracted to the openness of the snapshot, artists in the 1950s began to draw on qualities of the vernacular aesthetic that gave them license to break basic rules of photographic practice. Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, following others like Robert Frank, explored cities and traveled the country with handheld cameras. Their style of street photography exploited the haphazard or generic accidents of the amateur—blurred or out-of-focus imagery, off-kilter horizon lines, awkward cropping, double exposure, and the jarring inclusion of their own shadow. In a shot taken from behind the wheel of his car with an ominous instantaneity, Winogrand captured a strange and fleeting moment as a calf lurched across the road.
ProvenanceAnn Galt Myers; given to MFAH, 1979.
Exhibition History“In A Snap: The Art of Vernacular Photography,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 12, 2014–February 22, 2015.
Published References Winogrand 1964, Arena Editions, 2002. p. 37

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