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The Encyclopedia of Photography’s Art and History

    The Animals

    • Garry Winogrand (1928-1984)

    Human-animal interactions in zoos, highlighting themes of captivity, observation, and artificial boundaries through ironic and unsettling compositions that satirize societal norms.

    Central Park Zoo, New York, 1967. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.

    The Animals

    • Garry Winogrand (1928-1984)

    Human-animal interactions in zoos, highlighting themes of captivity, observation, and artificial boundaries through ironic and unsettling compositions that satirize societal norms.

    Central Park Zoo, New York, 1967. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1962-63. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1961-63. Image courtesy of MOCA.
    New York, 1963. Image courtesy of ICP.
    New York, 1963. Image courtesy of ICP.
    New York Aquarium, Coney Island, c. 1963. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled. 1962-63. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Aquarium at Coney Island, 1962. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, c. 1969. Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Untitled, 1962-63. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1962-63. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    New York, 1962. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1963. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1962-63. Image courtesy of ICP.
    New York, 1963. Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Untitled, 1962-63. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1962-63. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Central Park Zoo, New York, 1962. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.

    Books

    The Animals

    (MOMA, 2004)

    Garry Winogrand

    (Yale University Press, 2013)

    Garry Winogrand

    (Fundación Mapfre, 2021)

    Winogrand: Figments from the Real World

    (Abrams, 1991)

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    Behind the Saint-Lazare station, Paris, 1932. Image courtesy of Magnum Photos.
    The Decisive Moment
    • Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

    Ephemeral human moments portrayed through a fusion of spontaneity and precise composition.

    Life is Good and Good for You in New York
    • William Klein (1926-2022)

    The intense energy of New York’s streets through gritty, chaotic images that critique urban life and redefine photographic storytelling.

    Parade — Hoboken, New Jersey
    The Americans
    • Robert Frank (1924-2019)

    1950s America’s complexities through a foreigner’s unfiltered lens, documenting tensions between national ideals and everyday realities.

    Route 9W, New York 1967. Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Self Portraits
    • Lee Friedlander (1934)

    Self-portraits as fragmented, layered compositions incorporating shadows, reflections, and personal introspection within the social landscape.

    Sunday morning is the only time these cuties get a chance to get cleaned up... Image courtesy of ICP.
    Naked City
    • Weegee (1899-1968)

    Nighttime scenes of 1930s-1940s New York, portraying urban extremes of crime and social life through high-contrast flash photography and candid depictions of human emotion.

    For a Language to Come
    • Takuma Nakahira (1938-2015)

    Grainy, blurry, and out-of-focus images depicting a dystopian urban landscape, evoking an immersive sensory experience that challenges conventional documentary traditions.