Winogrand Color

Winogrand Color is the first monograph devoted entirely to Garry Winogrand's color photography, work that stood almost unseen behind the black-and-white street pictures that made his name.

Between the early 1950s and late 1960s, Winogrand carried two cameras between commercial assignments, one loaded with black-and-white film and the other with color slide film. He shot more than 45,000 color frames he never printed or published in his lifetime. Editors Michael Almereyda and Susan Kismaric selected 150 images from that archive, held at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. The selection ranges from Manhattan sidewalks and Coney Island's boardwalk to the open spaces of the American West. The pictures share the same instinct for the unposed gesture as his black-and-white work, but the color stock, often oversaturated Kodachrome, gives ordinary postwar street scenes an unfamiliar charge.

Winogrand (1928–1984) was one of the central street photographers of his generation. He was included in John Szarkowski's 1967 New Documents exhibition at MoMA alongside Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander. He published four monographs in his lifetime: The Animals (1969), Women Are Beautiful (1975), Public Relations (1977) and Stock Photographs (1980). Winogrand Color adds a fifth body of work to that record, more than fifty years after most of it was shot.