(The photography theme continues this week. You can also read this post on the site here, check out last week’s interview with photographer Ryan Struck here, and see the results of my experiment with an underwater film camera, the Nikonos, here.)
CONSIDER
Certain photos, like powerful songs, have the power to make my eyes well up. There’s just something about these two forms of art that can cut right to my core turn on the waterworks, and it was at the Garry Winogrand show at Brooklyn Museum that I was recently reminded of this.
The show, which runs until December 8th, is the “first exhibition dedicated to the nearly forgotten color photographs of Garry Winogrand.” The large-scale color photos are backlit and presented in a dark room. Meanwhile the images cycle through various images, giving you an experience something like being inside a giant slide projector.
Winogrand’s images, shot on slide film, capture insanely beautiful moments from the 50s and 60s. They’re less mundane than Eggleston’s, but equally colorful and evocative.
Winogrand pointed his lens at people much more than Eggleston did, which is hugely satisfying to see. (You can’t help but wonder about the people, all missing, in Eggleston’s vivid landscapes).
As a magazine photographer, it’s clear Winogrand was comfortable shooting portraits. In fact, he thrived at it. It’s these portraits, especially the black and white ones, that are on display in an adjacent gallery at Brooklyn Museum, that have the power to well up one’s eyes.
I found two specific images, one of a forlorn panhandler and another of a veteran with no legs, particularly gut-wrenching.
Good photography looks great on your walls, but powerful photography, like the best song, evokes emotion. Go check out the Winogrand show if you’re NYC and let his powerful images move you too.
Explore more about Garry Winogrand:
ICP: Garry Winogrand
LINKS
Salinger’s cover sketch for Catcher in the Rye and more artifacts from the reclusive writer’s life are on display at a new exhibit. (Artnet)
I remember when there were multiple dive bars in SoHo. It wasn’t that long ago, I’m really not that old, but I fear the day the last hold out - Fanelli’s - gives up the ghost. (New York Times)
Dennis Hopper’s film photographs from the 1960s are great (The Guardian)…
…And so are Candice Bergen’s (Airmail)
“If you have only one thing in the refrigerator it should be champagne. (And then butter.)” And other life advice from legendary GQ writer Glenn O’Brien. (GQ)
FOLLOW
Cow licks, 1964. @winograndfilm
VISIT
It’s getting to be prime soup dumpling season here in the northeast. Check out this dispatch from an excellent food hall in Queens, which undoubtetly is New York’s most culinary-rich borough.
LISTEN
That Dolly Parton podcast I mentioned last week? It’s that good. Go listen here.
ACQUIRE
Fall has been gorgeous here in New York. Really, it’s one of the best I can remember in the last ten years, which means my embrace of sweater weather is especially strong this year. You can find this Wellen Headlands sweater (pictured above) here, or any number of new sweaters to keep you warm this fall/winter from our friends at Huckberry here, and, support the site in the process. (Revenue from affiliate links go to the cause).
That’s it for this week!
Keep me posted,
John