Tag Archives: Garry Winogrand

Happy 150th Birthday Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alan Fisher, [Tapestries exhibited at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York], 1941 (2012.121.32) PM, March 6, 1941, pp. 18-19 (photos by Alan Fisher) PM Photographer Agrees With Moses About Museums… Early this week Park Commissioner Robert Moses said some unpleasant … Continue reading

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

…and pretzels too…

Lee Sievan, Pretzel Lady, 1940s (182.1991) Weegee, [Pretzel man], ca. 1945 (16389.1993) Weegee, “Peddlers drop in selling hot dogs… and pretzels too…”, “Naked City,” 1945 pp. 145-146 Garry Winogrand, [Pretzel lady, from “Women are Beautiful”] 1975 (277.1984)

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

[Football]

Harold Edgerton, Wes Fesler kicking a football, 1934 (108.1987) Using the simplest of all electrical synchronization methods, Edgerton’s setup lets the football actually take its own picture. As it is kicked, it pushes two wires together to complete a circuit. … Continue reading

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

MoMA: Past, Present, and Future

The Museum of Modern Art has had different stages of development, each characterized by an expansion. In 1939, after having already moved three times in ten years, the museum found its permanent location on West 53rd Street, where it remains … Continue reading

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. – Mark Twain

Garry Winogrand, [Woman riding bicycle] from Women are Beautiful, 1975 (257.1984) Most bicyclists in New York City obey instinct far more than they obey the traffic laws, which is to say that they run red lights, go the wrong way … Continue reading

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Theories of Motion

In May of last year, MIT’s Kurtz Gallery for Photography opened with its first exhibition featuring Berenice Abbott. Abbott was hired by MIT to develop photographic imagery for the teachings of physics and spent two years using photography to document the … Continue reading

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Love Me, Love My Dog

Filling the role of Man’s Best Friend below are some featured pups being embraced, ogled, petted, held, hugged, and loved by their owners. Dogs with style: Chim (David Seymour), [Peggy Guggenheim on the Grand Canal, Venice], 1950 (354.1982) Dogs with … Continue reading

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Laughing Ladies

Cecil Beaton, [Katharine Hepburn], 1960 (1253.2005) Garry Winogrand, New York City, 1968, from the series Women are Beautiful, 1981 (283.1984) Leonard McCombe, [Kim Novak laughing at joke by Otto Preminger, New York], 1956 (1103.2005) Toni Frissell, Five Girls Running, New … Continue reading

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Football Fever

On February 3, millions of viewers will tune in to watch the Baltimore Ravens play the San Francisco 49ers in the Superbowl. How do you capture in a still image the intensity of watching a football game like the Superbowl … Continue reading

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

Using Central Park

Over the years Central Park has been used for many purposes: Bruce Davidson, Central Park, New York City, 1960 (2011.2005) Ernst Haas, Who has the floor? (Central Park), 1972 (79.1976) Tod Papageorge, Alice in Wonderland, 1978 (886.2000) W. Eugene Smith, Central … Continue reading

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment